1 debhelper (7.2.3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
4 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
5 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
6 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
7 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
8 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. Closes: #517617
9 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
10 of specific upstream changelogs. Closes: #490937
11 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:57:47 -0500
16 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
19 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
20 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
21 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
22 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
23 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
25 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
29 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
31 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
35 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
37 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
38 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
39 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
40 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
41 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
42 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
43 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
44 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
45 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
46 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
47 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
51 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
53 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
54 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
56 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
57 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
58 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
59 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
61 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
62 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
66 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
68 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
69 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
70 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
71 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
72 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
73 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
74 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
76 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
77 that uses them. Affected options are:
78 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
79 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
80 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
81 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
82 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
83 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
84 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
85 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
86 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
87 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
88 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
89 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
93 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
100 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
106 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
108 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
109 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
111 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
112 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
113 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
114 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
115 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
117 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
119 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
120 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
121 rules (see bug #509756).
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
125 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
131 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
132 * Typo. Closes: #493062
133 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
134 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
138 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
141 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
142 empty files. Closes: #490937
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
146 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
152 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
159 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
162 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
163 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
164 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
165 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
170 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
172 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
173 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
174 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
175 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
179 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
182 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
183 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
184 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
185 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
186 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
190 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
197 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
199 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
200 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
201 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
202 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
203 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
204 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
205 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
206 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
207 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
208 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
212 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
215 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
216 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
217 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
218 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
220 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
221 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
222 breaking backwards compatability.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
226 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
229 message in perl 5.10.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
233 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
239 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Convert copyright file to new format.
242 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
246 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
249 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
253 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
256 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
257 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
258 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
259 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
260 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
261 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
262 logging by dh_listpackages.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
266 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
269 run and there are no packages of that type.
270 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
271 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
272 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
273 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
275 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
276 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
280 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
282 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
283 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
284 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
288 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
291 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
292 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
294 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
295 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
296 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
297 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
298 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
299 planned but not yet implemented.)
300 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
301 if the Makefile has such a target.
302 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
303 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
304 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
305 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
306 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
307 but not yet implemented.)
308 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
309 recommended default, especially when using dh.
310 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
311 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
312 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
314 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
316 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
317 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
319 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
320 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
321 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
326 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
329 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
330 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
334 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
336 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
337 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
338 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
342 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
348 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
354 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
357 just those installed by the program.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
361 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
364 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
365 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
369 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
372 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
373 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
374 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
375 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
379 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
382 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
383 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
387 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
390 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
391 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
395 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
398 with policy. Closes: #461392
399 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
400 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
401 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
402 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
403 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
407 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
410 Closes: #460340, #460351
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
414 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
417 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
418 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
419 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
420 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
424 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
427 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
428 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
429 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
430 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
431 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
432 package build directory won't work.
433 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
434 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
435 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
436 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
437 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
438 mode. Closes: #459426
439 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
444 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
447 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
451 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
455 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
456 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
457 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
458 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
459 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
460 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
464 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
467 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
468 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
469 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
470 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
474 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
477 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
478 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
479 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
480 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
481 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
485 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
488 debian/package.triggers files.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
492 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
495 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
499 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
502 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
503 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
504 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
505 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
510 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
513 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
517 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
520 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
521 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
523 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
528 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
532 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
533 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
534 * Typo. Closes: #441272
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
538 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
545 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
552 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
555 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
557 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
558 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
559 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
561 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
562 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
563 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
567 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
570 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
571 * Update urls to web page.
572 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
574 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
575 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
579 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
582 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
583 - typo in alternatives call
584 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
586 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
587 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
591 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
594 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
599 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
605 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
611 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
614 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
616 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
617 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
618 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
619 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
620 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
621 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
622 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
623 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
624 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
625 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
626 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
630 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
633 package install. Closes: #415717
634 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
635 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
636 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
637 script and then remove the python files.
638 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
639 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
640 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
641 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
642 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
643 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
644 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
645 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
646 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
647 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
648 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
649 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
650 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
654 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Correct typo in french translation
660 * Typo. Closes: #400571
661 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
663 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
665 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
666 Closes: #406921, #381940
667 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
669 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
670 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
671 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
672 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
673 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
674 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
675 specified). Closes: #381851
676 * Misc minor changes.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
687 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
688 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
692 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
698 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
699 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
702 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
703 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
705 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
706 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
707 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
708 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
715 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
718 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
722 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
728 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
734 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
735 a difficult situation.
736 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
737 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
738 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
739 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
740 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
741 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
742 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
743 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
744 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
745 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
749 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Non-maintainer upload.
752 * Update of dh_python
753 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
754 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
756 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
757 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
758 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
759 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
760 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
762 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
764 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Non-maintainer upload.
767 * Update of dh_python
768 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
769 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
770 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
771 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
772 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
773 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
774 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
775 specific python version. Closes: #373853
776 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
777 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
779 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
780 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
781 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
782 the not too-distant future).
783 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
784 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
785 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
786 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
787 thus made the build fail.
789 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
791 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Non-maintainer upload.
794 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
796 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
798 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
801 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
802 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
803 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
804 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
805 package. Closes: #301424
806 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
807 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
808 fonts). Closes: #372686
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
812 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
818 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
819 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
820 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
821 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
822 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
823 above, but already depends on that.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
830 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
831 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
832 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
833 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
834 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
838 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
844 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
850 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
851 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
855 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
858 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
862 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
866 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
867 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
868 new version (0.24.1).
869 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
870 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
873 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
874 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
875 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
876 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
877 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
878 new directory on their own.
879 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
880 * Fix broken directory removal code.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
884 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
887 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
888 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
889 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
890 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
894 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
897 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
898 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
899 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
900 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
901 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
905 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
911 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Typo. Closes: #358904
915 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
916 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
920 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
921 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
925 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
927 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
928 || exit 0 instead of the intended
930 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
931 ignored. Closes: #337664
933 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
938 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
944 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
949 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
950 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
951 the dh_installdebconf manpage
952 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
953 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
954 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
955 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
959 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
962 version. Closes: #350607
963 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
964 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
965 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
966 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
970 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
973 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
974 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
975 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Minor bug fix from last release.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
992 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
995 language guessing. Closes: #193221
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1002 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1003 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1004 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1005 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1006 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1007 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1011 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1014 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1015 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1020 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1023 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1030 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1034 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1037 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1038 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1039 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1040 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1041 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1042 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1050 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1051 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1052 link. Closes: #346405
1053 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1055 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1056 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1057 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1058 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1059 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1060 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1061 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1065 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1072 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1078 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1081 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1085 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1088 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1097 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1098 installed. Closes: #342033
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1105 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1106 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1107 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1112 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1118 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1124 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1128 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1129 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1130 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1137 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1155 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1158 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1159 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1160 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1161 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1162 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1163 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1164 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1166 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1170 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1173 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1174 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1178 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1181 in standard man dirs.
1182 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1186 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1195 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1207 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1214 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1217 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1218 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1222 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1225 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1226 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1227 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1229 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1231 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1237 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1243 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1246 mode. Closes: #324161
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1250 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1253 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1254 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1255 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1256 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1261 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1264 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1265 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1266 is necesary for sanity.
1267 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1268 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1275 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1276 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1283 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1287 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1293 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1296 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1297 released, so use at your own risk.
1298 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1299 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1301 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1302 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1303 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1304 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1305 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1306 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1307 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1308 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1309 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1310 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1311 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1312 including twice per config file line now..
1313 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1314 and simplfy the rules file.
1315 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1316 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1317 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1319 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1320 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1324 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1327 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1331 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1334 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1341 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1348 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1349 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1350 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1351 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1352 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1353 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1360 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1361 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1362 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1367 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1370 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1371 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1379 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1380 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1381 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1389 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1390 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1391 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1395 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1408 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1411 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1412 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1413 unknown. Closes: #282924
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1417 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1424 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Spanish man page updates.
1427 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1441 * dh_desktop: reindent
1442 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1443 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1455 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1461 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1465 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1468 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1469 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1473 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1479 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1495 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1502 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1503 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1504 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1505 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1506 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1507 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1509 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1510 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1511 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1512 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1513 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1514 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1515 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1516 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1517 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1518 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1519 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1520 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1521 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1522 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1523 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1524 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1538 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1542 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1545 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1549 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1552 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1559 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1569 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1575 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1584 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1585 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1586 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1593 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1597 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1600 but occasionally right and necessary.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1604 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1607 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1608 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1609 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1610 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1611 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1618 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1620 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1621 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1622 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1623 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1624 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1625 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1626 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1627 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1628 postinst scripts for udebs.
1629 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1633 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1636 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1638 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1639 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1643 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1666 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1673 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1677 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1680 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1683 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1684 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1697 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1704 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1705 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1706 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1708 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1710 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1711 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1712 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1719 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1724 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1727 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1728 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1729 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1734 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1749 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1750 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1751 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1752 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1753 associated -dbg packages.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1760 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1764 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1767 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1774 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1781 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1786 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1789 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1796 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1804 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1812 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1813 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1814 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1815 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1816 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1817 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1818 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1819 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1820 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1821 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1828 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1836 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1837 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1844 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1845 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1853 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1860 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1867 out section number. Closes: #204731
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1893 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1894 removal. Closes: #204286
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1901 renaming. Closes: #203548
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1908 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1909 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1925 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1931 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1934 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1935 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1936 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1943 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1944 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1964 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1972 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1979 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1981 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1982 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1989 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1997 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2009 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2016 it break hard links (see #188663).
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2023 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2037 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2038 debconf-mergetemplates
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2042 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2045 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2052 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2056 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2059 * Update debhelper(1).
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2066 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2067 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2068 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2069 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2070 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2077 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2078 the shell. Closes: #178524
2079 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2086 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2090 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2093 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2097 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2100 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2101 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2102 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2103 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2111 files from installation.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2118 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2119 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2126 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2133 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2137 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2153 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2154 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2156 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2160 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2163 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2164 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2165 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2166 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2173 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2180 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2181 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2189 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2204 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2205 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2206 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2214 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2215 practice. Closes: #163303
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2235 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2237 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2238 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2239 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2240 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2241 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2248 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2269 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2302 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2303 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2304 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2305 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2326 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2327 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2334 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2335 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2336 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2337 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2338 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2345 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2347 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2355 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2362 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2363 right thing. Closes: #150644
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Stupid, evil typo.
2370 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2374 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2384 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2385 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2399 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2406 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2407 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2415 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2428 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2429 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Removing perl warning message.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2448 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2449 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2450 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2451 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2452 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2453 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2454 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2455 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2475 debconf-mergetemplate.
2476 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2477 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2484 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2485 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2486 dh_install, which ...
2487 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2488 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2489 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2490 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2491 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2492 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2493 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2494 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2495 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2496 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2497 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2498 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2499 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2500 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2501 other minor changes.
2502 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2503 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2504 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2505 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2506 course there's -X ..)
2507 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2508 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2509 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2511 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2512 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2513 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2514 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2515 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2520 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2526 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2529 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2533 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2539 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2545 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2551 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2557 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2560 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2561 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2562 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2563 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2565 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2566 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2570 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2576 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2579 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2583 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2586 upset. Closes: #131322
2588 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2590 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2593 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2594 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2595 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2596 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2597 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2598 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2599 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2600 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2601 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2602 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2603 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2604 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2605 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2606 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2607 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2609 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2613 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2616 - Better indenting of generated code.
2617 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2621 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2625 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2626 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2627 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2628 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2629 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2630 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2631 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2635 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2638 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2645 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2646 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2647 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2648 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2649 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2650 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2651 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2652 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2653 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2654 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2655 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2656 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2657 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2658 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2659 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2664 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2670 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2673 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2674 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2678 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2681 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2682 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2686 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2692 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2695 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2696 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2697 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2698 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2699 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2704 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2710 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2713 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2717 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2720 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2725 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2731 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2734 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2738 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2744 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2748 Also some indentation fixes.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2755 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2756 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2757 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2758 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2759 Closes: #106514, #85520
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2763 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2769 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2775 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2781 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2787 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2793 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2796 change it in debhelper v4..
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2800 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2806 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2809 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2813 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2816 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2820 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2826 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2829 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2830 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2831 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2832 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2833 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2834 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2835 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2836 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2837 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2838 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2839 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2840 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2844 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2847 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2861 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2862 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2863 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2864 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2865 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2866 program those options go to. So, for example,
2867 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2868 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2869 something complex. Closes: #89311
2870 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2874 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2877 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2878 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2879 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2886 through loop. Closes: #98598
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Missing semi-colon.
2893 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2894 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2898 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2901 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2902 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2903 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2910 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2911 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2915 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2918 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2922 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2925 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2926 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2930 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2933 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2934 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2935 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2942 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2943 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2944 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2948 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2951 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2955 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2961 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2967 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2973 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2979 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2982 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2986 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2989 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2990 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2991 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2992 followed. Closes: #85483
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2996 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2998 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2999 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3000 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3004 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3007 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3008 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3009 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3010 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3011 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3012 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3013 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3014 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3015 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3016 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3017 Closes: #88464, #77743
3018 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3019 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3020 us to deal with that gracefully.
3021 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3023 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3024 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3025 a while, Closes: #51225
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3029 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3035 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3038 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3042 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3046 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3051 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3054 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3055 don't make packlist files.
3056 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3057 debhelper coding standards.
3058 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3059 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3063 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3066 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3070 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3073 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3074 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3075 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3076 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3077 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3078 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3079 but is mildly deprecated.
3080 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3081 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3082 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3083 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3084 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3085 switching to statoverrides..
3086 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3087 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3088 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3089 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3090 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3091 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3093 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3094 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3095 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3096 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3097 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3098 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3099 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3100 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3101 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3103 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3104 variable names, pod man pages).
3105 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3106 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3107 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3108 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3109 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3110 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3111 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3115 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3121 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3131 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3135 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3137 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3138 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3139 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3143 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3145 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3146 they were previously ignored.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3150 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3152 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3153 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3157 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3159 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3160 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3161 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3165 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3167 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3173 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3174 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3181 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3182 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3183 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3184 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3185 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3186 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3187 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3188 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3189 it is an obsolete program.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3193 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3195 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3203 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3205 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3209 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3211 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3213 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3215 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3219 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * typo: Closes, #78567
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3246 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3247 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3248 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3249 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3250 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3257 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3262 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3265 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3266 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3267 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3268 backwards-compatability.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3272 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3275 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3276 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3277 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3278 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3279 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3280 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3282 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3283 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3284 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3286 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3288 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3289 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3290 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3291 should now be raised to severity important..
3292 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3293 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3297 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3300 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3323 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3333 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3334 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3335 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3336 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3346 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3349 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3350 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3351 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3352 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3353 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3354 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3359 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3362 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3375 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3380 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3383 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3384 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3385 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3386 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3390 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3394 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3397 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3400 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3401 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3404 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3406 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3407 the TODO entry about it.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3411 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3421 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3422 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3426 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3429 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3430 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3431 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3432 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3436 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3442 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3452 (this appears to be logal).
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3459 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3460 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3461 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3462 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3466 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3472 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3475 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3476 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3477 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3478 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3482 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3491 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3495 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3505 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3506 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3507 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3512 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3528 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3529 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3530 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3531 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3532 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3533 notice until v2 is complete.
3534 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3535 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3536 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3537 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3538 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3539 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3541 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3542 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3543 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3544 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3548 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3564 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3578 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3579 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3580 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3581 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3589 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3590 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3591 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3599 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3600 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3604 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3607 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3611 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3614 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3628 depend on the build and install targets.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3635 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3652 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3658 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3661 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3662 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3663 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3664 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3665 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3666 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3668 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3669 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3670 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3671 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3672 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3673 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3674 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3690 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3693 right place. Closes: #55065
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3707 * Copyright date updates.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3711 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3714 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3750 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3753 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3754 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3755 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3756 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3757 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3758 bits until all files have been registered.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3762 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_installmanpages:
3765 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3766 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3767 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3768 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3769 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3770 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3771 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3772 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3773 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3774 otherwise change the result at all.
3776 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3777 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3778 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3779 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3780 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3794 act on files that don't exist.
3795 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3796 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3797 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3799 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3800 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3801 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3802 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3806 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3821 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3828 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3830 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3831 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3832 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3839 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3840 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3841 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3842 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3843 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3844 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3845 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3847 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3849 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3875 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3891 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3894 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3895 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3896 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3897 I made some changes, though:
3898 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3899 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3900 that is a clear violation of policy.
3901 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3902 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3903 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3904 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3905 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3906 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3907 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3908 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3909 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3911 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3924 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3931 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3932 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3953 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3954 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3955 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3956 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3957 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3958 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3959 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3973 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3974 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3987 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3994 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3995 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4001 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4010 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4017 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4018 for the dependancies to be generated.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4025 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4032 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4033 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4034 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4042 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4043 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4062 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4072 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4075 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4076 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4077 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4078 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4079 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4080 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4081 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4082 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4083 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4084 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4085 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4086 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4093 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4094 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4096 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4097 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4098 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4099 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4100 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4101 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4103 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4104 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4111 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4125 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4133 for building debhelper.
4134 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4148 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4155 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4156 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4157 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4158 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4159 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4160 it's always available.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4167 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4168 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4169 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4176 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4177 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4190 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4203 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4204 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4205 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4212 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4220 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4221 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4223 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4224 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4243 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4250 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4251 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4253 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4260 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4261 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4262 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4269 things if CDPATH is set.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4282 seems to make sense for the transition.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4289 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4297 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4298 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4305 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4312 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4313 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4314 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4315 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4328 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4329 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4330 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4331 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4332 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4333 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4334 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4335 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4336 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4337 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4342 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4345 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4346 * README: mention doc/v2
4347 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4348 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4352 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4354 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4355 be using this script RSN.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4359 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4362 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4363 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4364 more than 1 init script.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4368 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4371 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4375 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Changed perl version detection.
4378 * Changed call to find.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4382 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4385 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4387 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4392 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Really include dh_installpam.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4398 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4401 * Wrote man page for same.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4405 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4408 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4409 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4414 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4421 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4424 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4425 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4426 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4427 x bit was being set!
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4431 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4434 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4435 well. (Closes: 38900)
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4439 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4442 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4443 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4447 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4460 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4469 help from Julian Gilbey.
4470 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4471 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4472 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4473 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4474 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4475 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4476 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4481 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4487 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4494 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4500 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4506 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4509 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4513 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4516 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4520 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4523 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4527 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4533 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4536 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4552 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4555 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4556 may be deleted. (#35845)
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4560 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Various man page enhancements.
4563 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4571 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4572 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4579 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4580 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4581 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4583 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4584 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4589 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4595 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Another very minor typo fix.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Very minor typo fix.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4607 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4610 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4611 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4624 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4625 variables properly (#34850).
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4629 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4635 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4638 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4639 (automatically generated by build process).
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4645 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4652 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4653 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4655 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4659 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4662 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * README: minor typo fix.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4675 leave it at that. :-)
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4679 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4691 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4694 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4695 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4696 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4703 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4710 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4717 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4718 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4719 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4720 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4727 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4728 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4729 Craig Small for spotting this.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4733 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4736 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4737 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4741 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4750 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4756 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4757 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4758 working on the last version of debhelper.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4765 being made. (#23255)
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4775 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4778 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4785 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4786 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4787 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4788 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4795 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4796 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4797 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4798 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4800 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4801 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4803 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4823 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4824 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4825 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4826 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4827 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4828 suidregister actually supports it.
4829 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4830 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4834 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4841 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4844 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4845 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4846 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4847 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4848 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4849 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4850 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4854 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4856 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4857 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4864 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4865 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4866 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4867 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4871 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4874 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4876 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4877 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4878 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4879 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4880 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4881 effect, either. (#30118)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4894 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4895 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4908 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4909 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4910 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4911 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4915 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4918 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4919 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4932 packages, painlessly.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4942 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * The perl conversion is complete.
4958 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4960 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4961 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4962 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4967 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4970 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4971 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4972 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4979 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4981 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4983 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4984 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4991 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4992 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5005 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5006 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5007 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5008 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5009 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5016 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5017 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5018 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5019 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5026 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5030 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5033 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5034 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5035 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5036 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5037 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5038 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5039 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5040 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5053 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5054 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5055 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5063 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5070 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5077 sections of shared libraries.
5078 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5079 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5080 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5081 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5082 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5083 things you don't want them to.
5084 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5085 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5092 shared libraries. (#26414)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5098 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5099 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5100 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5101 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5109 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5111 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5112 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5113 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5114 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5115 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5122 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5129 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5130 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5138 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5145 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5146 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5147 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5148 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5149 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5151 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5152 remove debian/files properly.
5153 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5154 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5155 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5156 * Removed bogus menu file.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5163 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5170 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5171 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5172 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5173 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5174 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5175 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5182 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5183 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5184 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5185 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5199 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5200 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5202 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5203 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5204 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5205 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5206 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5207 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5214 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5215 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5216 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5217 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5218 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5219 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5220 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5221 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5222 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5223 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5224 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5225 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5226 passed any switches.
5227 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5234 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5235 at all for a long while.
5236 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5237 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5238 large chunks in the process.
5239 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5240 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5241 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5249 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5251 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5259 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5260 that don't always have the same files in them.
5261 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5262 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5263 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5271 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5272 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5273 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5274 updating 27 man pages.
5275 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5276 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5277 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5278 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5279 programs act on. (#25247)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5287 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5288 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5289 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5290 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5291 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5292 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5297 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5304 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5311 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5314 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5318 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5324 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5327 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5328 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5329 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5330 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5331 package by accident.
5332 * Is version 1.0 next?
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5336 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5339 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5340 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5344 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5347 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5348 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5349 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5350 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5351 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5353 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5358 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5361 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5362 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5366 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5369 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5373 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5376 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5377 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5382 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5388 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5391 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5392 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5397 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5403 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5406 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5407 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5408 past week. Thanks, guys!
5410 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5411 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5412 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5413 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5414 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5415 would do in the same situation.
5416 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5417 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5419 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5421 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5422 permissions changed.
5423 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5424 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5425 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5426 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5427 files are treated identically.
5428 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5429 * Minor man page fixes.
5430 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5431 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5432 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5436 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5439 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5440 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5441 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5442 use -X multiple times, too.
5443 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5444 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5448 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5451 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5452 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5456 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5459 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5463 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5466 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5467 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5468 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5469 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5470 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5471 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5472 shape if you're starting a new package.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5476 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5479 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5486 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5487 because of missing symlinks.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5491 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5497 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5500 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5501 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5502 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5503 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5504 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5506 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5507 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5511 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5513 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5514 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5515 to be changed after the fact :-)
5516 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5520 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5523 no version string after the -V.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5527 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5529 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5530 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5535 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5538 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5542 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5545 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5546 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5547 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5548 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5549 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5550 I always welcome corrections!
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5554 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5560 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5563 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5564 * Documented this new switch.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5568 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5571 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5572 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5573 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5574 no packages use the old behavior.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5578 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5581 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5582 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5586 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5589 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5593 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5599 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5602 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5609 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5610 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5611 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5615 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5621 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5624 into the source package by accident.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5628 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5631 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5632 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5633 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5634 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5635 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5636 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5641 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5645 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5646 inspired to implement some of it.
5647 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5651 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5654 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5658 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5661 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5662 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5666 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5669 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5670 have done.) (#17598)
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5674 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5680 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5689 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5693 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5696 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5697 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5701 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5704 argument processor in perl.
5705 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5706 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5707 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5708 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5712 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5715 type directories. (#16933)
5716 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5717 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5718 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5719 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5720 are supported. (#16935)
5721 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5726 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5729 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5733 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5737 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5738 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5739 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5740 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5741 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5742 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5746 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5749 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5750 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5752 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5753 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5754 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5755 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5756 a given package, or -i or -a.
5757 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5758 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5759 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5760 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5761 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5762 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5763 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5764 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5765 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5767 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5768 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5769 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5773 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5776 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5777 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5782 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5785 does not have a section.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5789 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5792 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5793 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5794 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5798 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Fixed typo #16215.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5804 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5807 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5808 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5809 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5810 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5811 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5816 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5819 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5820 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5821 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5826 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5841 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5842 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5843 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5844 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5845 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5846 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5850 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5859 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5863 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5866 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5867 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5868 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5872 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5875 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5879 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5888 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5892 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5895 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5908 postinst, postrm, etc.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5918 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5921 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5922 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5923 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5924 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5925 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5929 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5932 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5933 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5937 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5940 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5944 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5947 installing package files into.
5948 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5957 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5961 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5967 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5970 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5974 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5977 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5978 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5979 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5980 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5984 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5986 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5987 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5988 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5989 multiple binary packages.
5990 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5991 should rebuild them with this version.
5992 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5996 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5999 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6003 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6006 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6010 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6013 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6014 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6015 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6016 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6017 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6018 debian/README.debian.
6019 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6020 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6021 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6022 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6023 in a few situations.)
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6027 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6033 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6039 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6042 * Fixed several man pages.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6046 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6049 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6050 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6054 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6057 is ready for general use.
6058 * Added man pages for all commands.
6059 * Multiple binary package support.
6060 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6061 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6062 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6064 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6065 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6066 auto-installed as parameters.
6067 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6069 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6072 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6073 the package build directory it is to act on.
6074 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6075 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6076 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6080 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6082 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6083 ready to replace debstd.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400