1 debhelper (7.4.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
13 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
17 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
18 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
19 in control file or debhelper config files.
20 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
24 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
27 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
28 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
32 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
35 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
39 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
42 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
43 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
47 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Updated French translation.
50 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
51 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
52 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
53 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
55 * Typo. Closes: #571968
56 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
57 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
58 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
59 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
60 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
61 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
62 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
63 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
64 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
66 * dh: Improve documentation.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
70 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
72 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
73 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
74 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
78 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
81 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
85 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
88 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
92 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
95 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
96 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
97 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
98 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
99 options that they do not support.
100 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
101 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
102 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
103 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
104 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
105 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
110 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
114 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
115 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
116 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
117 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
118 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
119 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
120 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
121 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
122 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
126 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
129 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
130 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
131 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
132 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
136 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Typo. Closes: #558654
139 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
140 installed. Closes: #558782
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
144 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
147 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
148 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
149 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
150 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
151 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
155 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
157 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
158 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
159 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
160 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
164 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
167 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
168 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
172 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
174 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
178 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
180 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
181 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
182 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
183 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
184 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
185 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
186 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
187 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
188 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
189 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
190 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
191 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
192 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
193 time soon.) Closes: #554509
194 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
196 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
197 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
198 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
199 document id. Closes: #555677
200 * Typo. Closes: #555659
201 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
202 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
203 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
204 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
206 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
207 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
208 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
213 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
216 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
217 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
218 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
219 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
220 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
221 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
222 translation (#494300 part 2)
225 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
227 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
228 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
229 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
230 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
231 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
235 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
238 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
239 (It was only run once due to logging.)
240 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
241 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
242 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
243 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
244 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
245 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
246 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
247 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
248 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
249 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
253 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
257 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
260 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
261 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
265 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
268 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
269 flag with arch all/any packages.
270 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
271 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
272 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
273 situation. Closes: #540794
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
277 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
281 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
282 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
283 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
284 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
285 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
288 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
289 the default. Closes: #538201
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
294 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
298 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
299 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
300 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
301 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
302 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
304 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
305 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
306 * Above Closes: #491117
307 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
312 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
318 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
319 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
320 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
324 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
327 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
328 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
329 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
330 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
331 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
336 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
339 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
340 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
344 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
346 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
350 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
352 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
353 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
355 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
356 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
357 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
363 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
364 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
368 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
374 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
376 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
377 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
378 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
383 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
385 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
389 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
392 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
393 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
394 created by using `python' first during build and install.
396 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
401 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
403 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
407 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
409 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
410 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
414 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
416 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
420 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
422 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
426 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
428 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
429 contributed by Modestas Vainius
430 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
431 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
432 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
433 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
434 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
435 that support it. Closes: #480577
436 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
437 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
438 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
440 - Adds support for cmake.
441 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
442 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
444 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
446 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
447 that use them. The options are:
448 --sourcedir, --destdir
449 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
450 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
451 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
452 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
453 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
457 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
463 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
466 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
467 default. Closes: #537140
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
471 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
474 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
475 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
479 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
482 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
489 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
496 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
498 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
499 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
500 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
504 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
507 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
508 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
509 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
513 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
516 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
517 warning or deprecation message.
518 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
519 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
520 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
521 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
522 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
523 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
524 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
525 Closes: #534639, #357434
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
529 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
538 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
539 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
540 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
541 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
543 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
544 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
545 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
555 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
562 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
565 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
569 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
573 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
574 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
576 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
577 file support. Closes: #494914
578 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
582 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
585 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
586 parameters. Closes: #527256
587 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
588 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
589 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
597 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
598 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
599 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
603 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
606 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
607 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
608 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
612 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
615 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
616 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
618 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
619 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
620 by triggers). Closes: #521181
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
624 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
628 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
632 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
635 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
636 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
637 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
638 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
643 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
652 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
653 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
654 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
655 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
656 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
658 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
659 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
660 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
661 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
662 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
663 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
667 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
670 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
671 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
672 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
673 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
674 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
676 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
680 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
682 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
686 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
688 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
689 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
690 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
691 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
692 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
693 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
694 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
695 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
696 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
697 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
698 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
702 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
704 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
705 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
707 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
708 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
709 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
710 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
712 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
713 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
717 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
719 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
720 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
721 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
722 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
723 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
724 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
725 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
727 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
728 that uses them. Affected options are:
729 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
730 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
731 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
732 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
733 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
734 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
735 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
736 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
737 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
738 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
739 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
740 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
744 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
751 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
757 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
759 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
760 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
762 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
763 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
764 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
765 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
766 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
768 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
770 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
771 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
772 rules (see bug #509756).
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
776 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
782 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
783 * Typo. Closes: #493062
784 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
785 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
789 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
792 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
793 empty files. Closes: #490937
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
797 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
803 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
810 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
813 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
814 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
815 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
816 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
821 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
823 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
824 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
825 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
826 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
830 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
833 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
834 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
835 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
836 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
837 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
841 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
850 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
851 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
852 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
853 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
854 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
855 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
856 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
857 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
858 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
859 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
863 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
866 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
867 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
868 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
869 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
871 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
872 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
873 breaking backwards compatibility.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
877 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
880 message in perl 5.10.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
890 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Convert copyright file to new format.
893 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
897 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
900 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
907 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
908 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
909 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
910 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
911 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
912 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
913 logging by dh_listpackages.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
917 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
920 run and there are no packages of that type.
921 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
922 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
923 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
924 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
926 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
927 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
931 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
933 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
934 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
935 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
939 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
942 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
943 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
945 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
946 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
947 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
948 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
949 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
950 planned but not yet implemented.)
951 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
952 if the Makefile has such a target.
953 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
954 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
955 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
956 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
957 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
958 but not yet implemented.)
959 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
960 recommended default, especially when using dh.
961 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
962 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
963 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
965 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
967 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
968 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
970 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
971 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
972 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
977 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
980 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
981 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
985 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
987 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
988 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
989 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
993 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
999 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1005 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1008 just those installed by the program.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1012 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1015 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1016 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1020 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1023 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1024 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1025 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1026 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1030 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1033 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1034 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1038 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1041 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1042 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1046 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1049 with policy. Closes: #461392
1050 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1051 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1052 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1053 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1054 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1058 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1061 Closes: #460340, #460351
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1065 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1068 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1069 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1070 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1071 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1075 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1078 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1079 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1080 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1081 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1082 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1083 package build directory won't work.
1084 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1085 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1086 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1087 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1088 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1089 mode. Closes: #459426
1090 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1095 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1098 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1106 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1107 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1108 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1109 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1110 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1111 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1115 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1118 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1119 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1120 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1121 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1125 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1128 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1129 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1130 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1131 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1132 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1136 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1139 debian/package.triggers files.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1143 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1146 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1153 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1154 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1155 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1156 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1164 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1168 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1171 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1172 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1174 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1179 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1183 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1184 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1185 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1189 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1203 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1206 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1208 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1209 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1210 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1212 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1213 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1214 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1221 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1222 * Update urls to web page.
1223 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1224 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1225 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1226 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1230 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1233 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1234 - typo in alternatives call
1235 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1237 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1238 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1245 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1250 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1256 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1262 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1265 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1267 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1268 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1269 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1270 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1271 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1272 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1273 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1274 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1275 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1276 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1277 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1281 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1284 package install. Closes: #415717
1285 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1286 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1287 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1288 script and then remove the python files.
1289 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1290 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1291 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1292 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1293 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1294 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1295 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1296 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1297 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1298 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1299 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1300 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1301 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1305 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Correct typo in french translation
1311 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1312 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1314 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1316 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1317 Closes: #406921, #381940
1318 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1320 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1321 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1322 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1323 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1324 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1325 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1326 specified). Closes: #381851
1327 * Misc minor changes.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1338 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1339 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1343 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1349 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1350 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1353 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1354 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1356 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1357 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1358 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1359 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1363 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1366 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1369 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1373 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1385 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1386 a difficult situation.
1387 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1388 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1389 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1390 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1391 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1392 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1393 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1394 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1395 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1396 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1400 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Non-maintainer upload.
1403 * Update of dh_python
1404 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1405 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1407 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1408 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1409 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1410 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1411 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1413 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1415 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Non-maintainer upload.
1418 * Update of dh_python
1419 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1420 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1421 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1422 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1423 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1424 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1425 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1426 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1427 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1428 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1430 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1431 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1432 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1433 the not too-distant future).
1434 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1435 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1436 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1437 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1438 thus made the build fail.
1440 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1442 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Non-maintainer upload.
1445 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1447 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1449 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1452 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1453 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1454 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1455 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1456 package. Closes: #301424
1457 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1458 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1459 fonts). Closes: #372686
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1463 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1469 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1470 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1471 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1472 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1473 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1474 above, but already depends on that.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1478 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1481 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1482 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1483 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1484 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1485 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1495 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1501 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1502 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1506 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1509 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1513 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1517 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1518 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1519 new version (0.24.1).
1520 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1521 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1524 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1525 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1526 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1527 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1528 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1529 new directory on their own.
1530 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1531 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1535 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1538 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1539 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1540 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1541 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1545 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1548 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1549 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1550 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1551 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1552 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1556 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1562 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1566 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1567 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1571 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1572 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1576 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1578 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1579 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1581 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1582 ignored. Closes: #337664
1584 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1589 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1595 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1600 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1601 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1602 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1603 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1604 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1605 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1606 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1610 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1613 version. Closes: #350607
1614 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1615 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1616 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1617 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1621 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1624 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1625 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1626 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1630 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1643 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1646 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1653 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1654 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1655 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1656 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1657 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1658 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1665 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1666 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1671 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1674 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1678 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1681 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1688 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1689 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1690 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1691 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1692 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1693 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1697 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1701 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1702 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1703 link. Closes: #346405
1704 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1706 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1707 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1708 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1709 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1710 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1711 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1712 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1732 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1739 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1744 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1748 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1749 installed. Closes: #342033
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1756 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1757 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1758 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1763 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1779 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1780 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1781 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1785 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1788 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1793 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1806 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1809 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1810 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1811 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1812 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1813 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1814 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1815 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1817 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1821 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1824 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1825 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1832 in standard man dirs.
1833 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1846 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1865 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1868 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1869 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1876 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1877 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1878 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1880 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1882 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1897 mode. Closes: #324161
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1901 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1904 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1905 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1906 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1907 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1915 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1916 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1917 is necesary for sanity.
1918 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1919 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1926 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1927 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1934 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1947 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1948 released, so use at your own risk.
1949 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1950 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1952 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1953 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1954 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1955 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1956 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1957 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1958 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1959 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1960 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1961 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1962 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1963 including twice per config file line now..
1964 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1965 and simplfy the rules file.
1966 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1967 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1968 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1970 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1971 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1978 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1985 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1992 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1999 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2000 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2001 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2002 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2003 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2004 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2011 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2012 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2013 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2021 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2022 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2027 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2030 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2031 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2032 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2037 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2040 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2041 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2042 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2062 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2063 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2064 unknown. Closes: #282924
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Spanish man page updates.
2078 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2092 * dh_desktop: reindent
2093 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2094 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2106 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2112 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2116 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2119 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2120 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2124 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2136 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2146 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2153 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2154 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2155 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2156 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2157 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2158 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2160 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2161 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2162 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2163 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2164 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2165 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2166 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2167 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2168 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2169 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2170 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2171 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2172 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2173 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2174 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2175 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2189 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2193 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2196 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2203 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2210 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2235 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2236 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2237 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2241 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2244 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2251 but occasionally right and necessary.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2255 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2258 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2259 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2260 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2261 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2262 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2269 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2271 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2272 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2273 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2274 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2275 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2276 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2277 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2278 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2279 postinst scripts for udebs.
2280 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2287 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2289 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2290 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2307 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2317 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2324 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2331 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2334 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2335 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2348 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2355 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2356 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2357 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2359 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2361 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2362 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2363 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2370 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2378 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2379 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2380 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2385 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2400 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2401 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2402 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2403 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2404 associated -dbg packages.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2411 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2418 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2425 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2432 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2440 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2447 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2455 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2463 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2464 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2465 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2466 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2467 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2468 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2469 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2470 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2471 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2472 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2479 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2487 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2488 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2495 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2496 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2504 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2511 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2518 out section number. Closes: #204731
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2544 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2545 removal. Closes: #204286
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2552 renaming. Closes: #203548
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2559 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2560 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2576 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2582 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2585 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2586 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2587 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2594 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2595 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2615 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2623 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2630 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2632 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2633 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2640 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2648 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2660 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2667 it break hard links (see #188663).
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2674 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2684 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2688 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2689 debconf-mergetemplates
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2693 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2696 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2703 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2707 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2710 * Update debhelper(1).
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2714 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2717 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2718 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2719 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2720 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2721 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2728 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2729 the shell. Closes: #178524
2730 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2737 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2744 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2751 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2752 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2753 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2754 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2762 files from installation.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2769 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2770 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2777 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2784 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2794 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2804 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2805 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2807 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2814 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2815 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2816 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2817 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2824 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2831 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2832 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2836 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2840 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2845 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2855 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2856 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2857 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2865 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2866 practice. Closes: #163303
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2886 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2888 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2889 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2890 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2891 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2892 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2899 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2920 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2953 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2954 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2955 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2956 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2977 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2978 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2985 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2986 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2987 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2988 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2989 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2996 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2998 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3006 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3013 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3014 right thing. Closes: #150644
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3018 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Stupid, evil typo.
3021 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3035 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3036 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3050 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3057 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3058 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3066 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3079 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3080 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Removing perl warning message.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3099 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3100 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3101 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3102 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3103 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3104 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3105 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3106 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3110 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3126 debconf-mergetemplate.
3127 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3128 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3135 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3136 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3137 dh_install, which ...
3138 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3139 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3140 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3141 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3142 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3143 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3144 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3145 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3146 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3147 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3148 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3149 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3150 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3151 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3152 other minor changes.
3153 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3154 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3155 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3156 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3157 course there's -X ..)
3158 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3159 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3160 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3162 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3163 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3164 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3165 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3166 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3171 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3177 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3180 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3184 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3190 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3196 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3202 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3208 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3211 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3212 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3213 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3214 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3216 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3217 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3221 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3227 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3230 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3234 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3237 upset. Closes: #131322
3239 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3241 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3244 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3245 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3246 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3247 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3248 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3249 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3250 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3251 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3252 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3253 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3254 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3255 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3256 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3257 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3258 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3260 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3264 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3267 - Better indenting of generated code.
3268 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3272 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3276 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3277 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3278 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3279 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3280 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3281 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3282 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3289 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3293 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3296 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3297 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3298 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3299 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3300 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3301 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3302 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3303 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3304 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3305 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3306 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3307 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3308 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3309 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3310 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3315 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3321 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3324 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3325 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3329 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3332 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3333 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3337 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3346 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3347 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3348 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3349 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3350 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3355 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3361 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3364 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3368 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3371 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3376 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3385 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3389 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3399 Also some indentation fixes.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3403 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3406 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3407 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3408 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3409 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3410 Closes: #106514, #85520
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3426 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3444 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3447 change it in debhelper v4..
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3451 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3460 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3467 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3471 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3477 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3480 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3481 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3482 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3483 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3484 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3485 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3486 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3487 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3488 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3489 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3490 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3491 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3495 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3498 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3512 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3513 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3514 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3515 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3516 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3517 program those options go to. So, for example,
3518 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3519 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3520 something complex. Closes: #89311
3521 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3528 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3529 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3530 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3534 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3537 through loop. Closes: #98598
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3541 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Missing semi-colon.
3544 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3545 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3549 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3552 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3553 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3554 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3558 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3561 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3562 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3569 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3576 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3577 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3584 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3585 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3586 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3590 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3593 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3594 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3595 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3599 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3602 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3606 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3612 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3618 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3624 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3630 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3633 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3637 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3640 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3641 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3642 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3643 followed. Closes: #85483
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3647 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3649 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3650 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3651 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3655 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3658 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3659 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3660 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3661 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3662 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3663 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3664 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3665 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3666 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3667 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3668 Closes: #88464, #77743
3669 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3670 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3671 us to deal with that gracefully.
3672 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3674 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3675 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3676 a while, Closes: #51225
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3680 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3686 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3689 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3693 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3697 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3702 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3705 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3706 don't make packlist files.
3707 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3708 debhelper coding standards.
3709 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3710 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3714 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3717 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3721 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3724 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3725 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3726 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3727 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3728 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3729 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3730 but is mildly deprecated.
3731 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3732 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3733 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3734 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3735 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3736 switching to statoverrides..
3737 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3738 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3739 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3740 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3741 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3742 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3744 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3745 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3746 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3747 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3748 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3749 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3750 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3751 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3752 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3754 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3755 variable names, pod man pages).
3756 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3757 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3758 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3759 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3760 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3761 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3762 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3772 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3782 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3786 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3788 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3789 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3790 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3796 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3797 they were previously ignored.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3803 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3804 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3810 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3811 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3812 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3818 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3824 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3825 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3831 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3832 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3833 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3834 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3835 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3836 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3837 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3838 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3839 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3840 it is an obsolete program.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3846 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3854 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3860 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3864 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3866 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * typo: Closes, #78567
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3897 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3898 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3899 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3900 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3901 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3908 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3916 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3917 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3918 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3919 backwards-compatibility.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3923 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3926 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3927 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3928 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3929 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3930 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3931 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3933 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3934 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3935 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3937 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3939 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3940 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3941 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3942 should now be raised to severity important..
3943 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3944 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3951 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3984 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3985 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3986 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3987 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3991 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4000 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4001 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4002 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4003 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4004 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4005 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4013 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4017 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4023 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4026 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4034 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4035 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4036 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4037 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4045 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4048 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4051 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4052 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4055 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4057 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4058 the TODO entry about it.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4072 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4073 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4080 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4081 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4082 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4083 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4103 (this appears to be logal).
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4110 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4111 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4112 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4113 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4126 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4127 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4128 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4129 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4142 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4156 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4157 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4158 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4179 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4180 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4181 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4182 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4183 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4184 notice until v2 is complete.
4185 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4186 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4187 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4188 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4189 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4190 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4192 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4193 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4194 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4195 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4215 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4229 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4230 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4231 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4232 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4240 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4241 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4242 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4250 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4251 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4258 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4265 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4279 depend on the build and install targets.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4286 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4303 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4309 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4312 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4313 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4314 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4315 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4316 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4317 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4319 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4320 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4321 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4322 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4323 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4324 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4325 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4344 right place. Closes: #55065
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4358 * Copyright date updates.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4362 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4365 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4404 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4405 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4406 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4407 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4408 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4409 bits until all files have been registered.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_installmanpages:
4416 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4417 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4418 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4419 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4420 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4421 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4422 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4423 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4424 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4425 otherwise change the result at all.
4427 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4428 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4429 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4430 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4431 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4436 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4442 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4445 act on files that don't exist.
4446 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4447 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4448 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4450 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4451 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4452 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4453 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4472 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4476 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4479 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4481 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4482 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4483 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4490 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4491 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4492 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4493 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4494 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4495 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4496 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4498 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4500 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4511 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4526 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4545 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4546 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4547 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4548 I made some changes, though:
4549 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4550 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4551 that is a clear violation of policy.
4552 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4553 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4554 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4555 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4556 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4557 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4558 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4559 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4560 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4562 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4566 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4575 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4579 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4582 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4583 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4604 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4605 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4606 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4607 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4608 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4609 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4610 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4624 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4625 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4638 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4645 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4646 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4652 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4661 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4668 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4669 for the dependancies to be generated.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4676 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4683 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4684 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4685 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4693 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4694 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4713 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4726 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4727 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4728 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4729 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4730 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4731 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4732 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4733 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4734 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4735 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4736 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4737 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4744 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4745 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4747 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4748 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4749 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4750 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4751 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4752 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4754 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4755 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4762 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4776 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4784 for building debhelper.
4785 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4799 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4806 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4807 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4808 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4809 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4810 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4811 it's always available.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4818 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4819 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4820 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4827 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4828 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4841 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4854 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4855 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4856 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4863 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4871 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4872 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4874 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4875 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4894 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4901 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4902 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4904 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4911 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4912 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4913 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4920 things if CDPATH is set.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4933 seems to make sense for the transition.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4940 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4948 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4949 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4956 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4963 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4964 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4965 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4966 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4979 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4980 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4981 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4982 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4983 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4984 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4985 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4986 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4987 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4988 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4996 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4997 * README: mention doc/v2
4998 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4999 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5005 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5006 be using this script RSN.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5013 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5014 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5015 more than 1 init script.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5022 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Changed perl version detection.
5029 * Changed call to find.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5036 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5038 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Really include dh_installpam.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5052 * Wrote man page for same.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5059 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5060 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5075 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5076 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5077 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5078 x bit was being set!
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5085 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5086 well. (Closes: 38900)
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5093 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5094 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5120 help from Julian Gilbey.
5121 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5122 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5123 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5124 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5125 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5126 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5127 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5160 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5167 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5174 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5187 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5206 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5207 may be deleted. (#35845)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * Various man page enhancements.
5214 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5222 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5223 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5230 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5231 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5232 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5234 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5235 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5246 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * Another very minor typo fix.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5252 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * Very minor typo fix.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5258 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5261 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5262 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5275 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5276 variables properly (#34850).
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5289 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5290 (automatically generated by build process).
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5296 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5300 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5303 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5304 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5306 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5313 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * README: minor typo fix.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5326 leave it at that. :-)
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5345 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5346 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5347 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5354 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5361 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5368 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5369 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5370 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5371 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5378 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5379 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5380 Craig Small for spotting this.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5387 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5388 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5392 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5398 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5401 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5405 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5407 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5408 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5409 working on the last version of debhelper.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5416 being made. (#23255)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5429 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5436 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5437 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5438 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5439 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5446 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5447 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5448 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5449 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5451 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5452 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5454 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5474 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5475 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5476 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5477 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5478 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5479 suidregister actually supports it.
5480 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5481 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5485 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5492 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5495 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5496 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5497 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5498 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5499 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5500 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5501 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5505 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5507 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5508 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5512 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5515 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5516 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5517 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5518 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5525 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5527 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5528 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5529 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5530 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5531 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5532 effect, either. (#30118)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5545 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5546 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5559 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5560 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5561 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5562 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5566 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5569 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5570 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5574 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5583 packages, painlessly.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5593 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * The perl conversion is complete.
5609 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5611 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5612 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5613 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5621 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5622 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5623 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5630 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5632 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5634 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5635 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5639 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5642 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5643 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5653 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5656 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5657 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5658 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5659 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5660 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5667 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5668 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5669 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5670 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5674 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5677 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5681 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5684 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5685 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5686 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5687 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5688 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5689 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5690 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5691 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5704 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5705 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5706 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5711 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5714 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5721 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5728 sections of shared libraries.
5729 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5730 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5731 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5732 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5733 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5734 things you don't want them to.
5735 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5736 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5743 shared libraries. (#26414)
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5749 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5750 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5751 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5752 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5756 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5760 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5762 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5763 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5764 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5765 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5766 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5773 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5780 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5781 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5786 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5789 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5793 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5796 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5797 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5798 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5799 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5800 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5802 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5803 remove debian/files properly.
5804 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5805 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5806 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5807 * Removed bogus menu file.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5811 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5814 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5821 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5822 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5823 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5824 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5825 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5826 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5830 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5833 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5834 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5835 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5836 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5840 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5847 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5850 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5851 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5853 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5854 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5855 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5856 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5857 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5858 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5862 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5865 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5866 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5867 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5868 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5869 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5870 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5871 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5872 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5873 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5874 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5875 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5876 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5877 passed any switches.
5878 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5885 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5886 at all for a long while.
5887 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5888 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5889 large chunks in the process.
5890 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5891 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5892 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5900 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5902 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5907 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5910 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5911 that don't always have the same files in them.
5912 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5913 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5914 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5922 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5923 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5924 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5925 updating 27 man pages.
5926 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5927 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5928 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5929 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5930 programs act on. (#25247)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5934 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5938 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5939 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5940 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5941 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5942 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5943 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5955 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5965 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5969 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5975 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5978 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5979 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5980 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5981 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5982 package by accident.
5983 * Is version 1.0 next?
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5987 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5990 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5991 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5995 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5998 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5999 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6000 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6001 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6002 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6004 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6009 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6012 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6013 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6017 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6020 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6024 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6027 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6028 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6033 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6042 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6043 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6048 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6054 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6057 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6058 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6059 past week. Thanks, guys!
6061 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6062 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6063 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6064 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6065 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6066 would do in the same situation.
6067 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6068 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6070 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6072 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6073 permissions changed.
6074 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6075 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6076 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6077 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6078 files are treated identically.
6079 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6080 * Minor man page fixes.
6081 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6082 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6083 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6087 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6090 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6091 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6092 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6093 use -X multiple times, too.
6094 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6095 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6099 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6102 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6103 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6107 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6110 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6114 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6117 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6118 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6119 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6120 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6121 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6122 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6123 shape if you're starting a new package.
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6127 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6130 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6137 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6138 because of missing symlinks.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6142 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6148 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6151 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6152 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6153 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6154 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6155 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6157 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6158 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6162 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6164 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6165 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6166 to be changed after the fact :-)
6167 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6171 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6173 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6174 no version string after the -V.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6178 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6180 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6181 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6186 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6189 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6196 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6197 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6198 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6199 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6200 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6201 I always welcome corrections!
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6205 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6214 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6215 * Documented this new switch.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6219 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6222 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6223 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6224 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6225 no packages use the old behavior.
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6229 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6231 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6232 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6233 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6237 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6240 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6250 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6253 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6257 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6260 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6261 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6262 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6266 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6275 into the source package by accident.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6282 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6283 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6284 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6285 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6286 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6287 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6292 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6296 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6297 inspired to implement some of it.
6298 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6302 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6305 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6312 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6313 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6317 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6320 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6321 have done.) (#17598)
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6325 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6340 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6344 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6347 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6348 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6352 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6355 argument processor in perl.
6356 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6357 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6358 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6359 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6363 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6366 type directories. (#16933)
6367 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6368 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6369 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6370 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6371 are supported. (#16935)
6372 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6380 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6388 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6389 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6390 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6391 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6392 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6393 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6397 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6400 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6401 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6403 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6404 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6405 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6406 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6407 a given package, or -i or -a.
6408 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6409 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6410 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6411 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6412 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6413 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6414 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6415 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6416 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6418 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6419 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6420 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6424 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6427 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6428 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6433 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6436 does not have a section.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6443 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6444 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6445 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6449 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * Fixed typo #16215.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6458 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6459 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6460 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6461 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6462 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6470 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6471 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6472 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6483 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6492 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6493 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6494 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6495 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6496 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6497 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6510 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6517 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6518 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6519 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6526 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6539 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6543 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6546 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6550 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6556 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6559 postinst, postrm, etc.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6569 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6572 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6573 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6574 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6575 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6576 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6583 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6584 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6591 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6598 installing package files into.
6599 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6604 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6608 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6612 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6618 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6621 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6625 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6627 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6628 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6629 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6630 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6631 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6635 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6637 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6638 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6639 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6640 multiple binary packages.
6641 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6642 should rebuild them with this version.
6643 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6647 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6650 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6654 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6657 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6661 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6664 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6665 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6666 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6667 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6668 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6669 debian/README.debian.
6670 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6671 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6672 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6673 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6674 in a few situations.)
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6678 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6684 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6690 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6693 * Fixed several man pages.
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6697 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6700 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6701 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6705 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6708 is ready for general use.
6709 * Added man pages for all commands.
6710 * Multiple binary package support.
6711 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6712 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6713 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6715 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6716 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6717 auto-installed as parameters.
6718 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6720 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6723 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6724 the package build directory it is to act on.
6725 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6726 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6727 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6731 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6733 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6734 ready to replace debstd.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400