1 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
4 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
5 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
6 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
7 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
8 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
12 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
15 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
16 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
17 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
18 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
19 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
20 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
21 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
25 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
31 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
34 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
35 may need to disable this.
36 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
37 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
38 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
39 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
43 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
46 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
47 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
51 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
54 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
55 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
57 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
58 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
59 to dh. Closes: #643069
60 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
61 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
65 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
68 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
69 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
70 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
71 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
73 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
74 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
75 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
77 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
78 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
79 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
80 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
81 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
82 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
83 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
84 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
85 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
86 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
87 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
88 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
89 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
90 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
91 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
95 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
102 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
105 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
107 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
113 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
116 Use override targets instead.
117 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
118 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
119 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
120 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
121 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
122 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
123 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
124 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
125 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
126 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
131 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
134 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
138 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
144 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
147 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
148 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
149 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
150 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
151 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
152 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
156 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
159 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
160 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
161 the targets. Closes: #629139
162 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
163 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
164 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
165 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
166 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
167 are already set to other values will not be changed.
169 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
170 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
171 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
172 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
173 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
178 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
184 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
187 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
188 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
192 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
195 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
196 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
197 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
198 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
199 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
200 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
201 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
206 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
210 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
211 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
213 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
214 changes may be added to that mode.
215 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
216 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
217 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
218 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
219 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
220 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
221 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
222 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
223 * Removed old example rules files.
224 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
228 * update french translation.
229 * Fix french misspelling.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
233 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
236 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
240 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
243 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
244 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
245 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
246 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
247 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
248 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
249 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
253 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
256 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
257 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
258 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
259 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
260 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
261 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
263 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
264 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
265 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
266 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
267 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
268 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
269 (Thanks, David Prévot)
270 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
271 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
272 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
273 target fails. Closes: #601037
274 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
276 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
277 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
278 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
279 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
280 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
282 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
283 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
285 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
286 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
287 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
289 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
291 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
294 * update french translation.
295 * Fix french misspelling.
296 * French translation update after massive man page typography
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
300 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
306 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
310 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
312 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
316 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
318 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
319 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
320 introduced by the fix to #527990.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
324 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
327 changes are planned for that mode.
328 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
329 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
330 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
331 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
332 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
333 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
334 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
335 (genesis) still uses them.
336 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
337 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
338 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
339 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
340 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
341 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
342 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
343 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
344 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
345 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
346 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
347 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
348 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
349 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
350 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
351 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
352 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
353 commands. (See #570039)
354 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
356 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
361 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
365 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
366 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
367 in control file or debhelper config files.
368 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
372 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
375 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
376 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
380 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
383 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
387 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
390 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
391 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
395 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Updated French translation.
398 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
399 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
400 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
401 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
403 * Typo. Closes: #571968
404 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
405 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
406 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
407 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
408 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
409 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
410 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
411 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
412 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
414 * dh: Improve documentation.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
418 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
420 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
421 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
422 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
426 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
429 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
433 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
436 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
440 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
443 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
444 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
445 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
446 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
447 options that they do not support.
448 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
449 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
450 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
451 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
452 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
453 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
458 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
462 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
463 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
464 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
465 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
466 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
467 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
468 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
469 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
470 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
474 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
477 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
478 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
479 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
480 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
484 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Typo. Closes: #558654
487 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
488 installed. Closes: #558782
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
492 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
495 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
496 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
497 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
498 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
499 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
503 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
505 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
506 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
507 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
508 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
512 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
515 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
516 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
520 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
522 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
526 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
528 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
529 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
530 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
531 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
532 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
533 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
534 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
535 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
536 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
537 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
538 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
539 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
540 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
541 time soon.) Closes: #554509
542 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
544 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
545 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
546 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
547 document id. Closes: #555677
548 * Typo. Closes: #555659
549 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
550 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
551 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
552 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
554 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
555 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
556 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
561 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
564 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
565 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
566 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
567 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
568 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
569 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
570 translation (#494300 part 2)
573 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
575 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
576 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
577 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
578 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
579 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
583 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
586 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
587 (It was only run once due to logging.)
588 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
589 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
590 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
591 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
592 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
593 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
594 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
595 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
596 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
597 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
601 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
605 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
608 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
609 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
613 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
616 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
617 flag with arch all/any packages.
618 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
619 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
620 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
621 situation. Closes: #540794
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
625 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
629 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
630 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
631 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
632 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
633 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
636 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
637 the default. Closes: #538201
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
642 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
646 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
647 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
648 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
649 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
650 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
652 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
653 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
654 * Above Closes: #491117
655 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
660 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
666 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
667 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
668 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
672 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
675 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
676 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
677 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
678 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
679 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
684 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
687 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
688 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
692 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
694 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
698 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
700 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
701 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
703 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
704 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
705 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
709 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
711 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
712 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
716 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
722 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
724 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
725 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
726 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
731 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
733 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
737 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
740 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
741 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
742 created by using `python' first during build and install.
744 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
749 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
751 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
755 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
757 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
758 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
762 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
764 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
768 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
770 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
774 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
776 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
777 contributed by Modestas Vainius
778 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
779 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
780 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
781 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
782 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
783 that support it. Closes: #480577
784 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
785 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
786 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
788 - Adds support for cmake.
789 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
790 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
792 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
794 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
795 that use them. The options are:
796 --sourcedir, --destdir
797 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
798 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
799 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
800 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
801 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
805 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
811 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
814 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
815 default. Closes: #537140
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
819 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
822 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
823 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
827 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
830 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
834 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
837 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
841 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
844 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
846 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
847 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
848 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
852 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
855 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
856 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
857 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
861 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
864 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
865 warning or deprecation message.
866 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
867 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
868 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
869 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
870 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
871 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
872 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
873 Closes: #534639, #357434
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
877 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
883 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
886 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
887 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
888 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
889 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
891 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
892 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
893 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
897 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
903 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
910 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
913 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
921 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
922 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
924 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
925 file support. Closes: #494914
926 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
930 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
933 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
934 parameters. Closes: #527256
935 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
936 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
937 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
941 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
945 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
946 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
947 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
951 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
954 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
955 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
956 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
960 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
963 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
964 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
966 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
967 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
968 by triggers). Closes: #521181
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
972 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
976 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
983 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
984 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
985 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
986 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
991 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1000 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1001 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1002 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1003 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1004 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1006 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1007 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1008 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1009 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1010 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1011 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1015 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1018 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1019 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1020 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1021 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1022 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1024 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1028 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1030 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1034 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1036 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1037 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1038 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1039 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1040 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1041 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1042 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1043 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1044 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1045 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1046 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1050 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1052 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1053 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1055 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1056 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1057 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1058 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1060 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1061 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1065 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1067 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1068 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1069 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1070 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1071 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1072 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1073 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1075 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1076 that uses them. Affected options are:
1077 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1078 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1079 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1080 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1081 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1082 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1083 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1084 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1085 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1086 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1087 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1088 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1092 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1099 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1105 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1108 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1110 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1111 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1112 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1113 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1114 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1115 than the old method.
1116 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1118 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1119 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1120 rules (see bug #509756).
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1124 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1130 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1131 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1132 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1133 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1137 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1140 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1141 empty files. Closes: #490937
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1145 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1151 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1158 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1161 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1162 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1163 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1164 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1169 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1171 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1172 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1173 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1174 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1178 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1181 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1182 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1183 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1184 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1185 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1189 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1196 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1199 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1200 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1201 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1202 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1203 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1204 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1205 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1206 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1207 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1211 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1214 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1215 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1216 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1217 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1219 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1220 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1221 breaking backwards compatibility.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1225 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1228 message in perl 5.10.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1232 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1238 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1241 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1245 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1248 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1252 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1255 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1256 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1257 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1258 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1259 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1260 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1261 logging by dh_listpackages.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1265 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1268 run and there are no packages of that type.
1269 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1270 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1271 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1272 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1274 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1275 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1279 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1282 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1283 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1287 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1290 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1291 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1293 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1294 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1295 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1296 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1297 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1298 planned but not yet implemented.)
1299 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1300 if the Makefile has such a target.
1301 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1302 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1303 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1304 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1305 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1306 but not yet implemented.)
1307 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1308 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1309 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1310 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1311 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1313 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1315 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1316 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1318 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1319 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1320 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1325 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1328 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1329 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1333 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1335 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1336 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1337 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1341 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1347 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1353 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1356 just those installed by the program.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1360 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1363 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1364 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1368 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1371 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1372 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1373 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1374 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1378 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1381 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1382 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1386 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1389 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1390 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1394 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1397 with policy. Closes: #461392
1398 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1399 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1400 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1401 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1402 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1406 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1409 Closes: #460340, #460351
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1413 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1416 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1417 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1418 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1419 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1423 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1426 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1427 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1428 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1429 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1430 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1431 package build directory won't work.
1432 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1433 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1434 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1435 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1436 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1437 mode. Closes: #459426
1438 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1443 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1446 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1450 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1454 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1455 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1456 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1457 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1458 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1459 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1463 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1466 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1467 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1468 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1469 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1473 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1476 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1477 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1478 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1479 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1480 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1484 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1487 debian/package.triggers files.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1491 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1494 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1498 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1501 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1502 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1503 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1504 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1509 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1512 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1516 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1519 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1520 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1522 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1527 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1531 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1532 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1533 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1537 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1544 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1551 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1554 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1556 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1557 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1558 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1560 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1561 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1562 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1566 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1569 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1570 * Update urls to web page.
1571 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1572 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1573 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1574 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1578 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1581 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1582 - typo in alternatives call
1583 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1585 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1586 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1590 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1593 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1598 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1604 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1610 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1613 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1615 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1616 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1617 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1618 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1619 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1620 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1621 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1622 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1623 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1624 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1625 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1629 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1632 package install. Closes: #415717
1633 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1634 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1635 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1636 script and then remove the python files.
1637 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1638 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1639 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1640 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1641 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1642 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1643 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1644 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1645 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1646 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1647 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1648 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1649 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1653 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Correct typo in french translation
1659 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1660 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1662 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1664 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1665 Closes: #406921, #381940
1666 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1668 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1669 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1670 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1671 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1672 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1673 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1674 specified). Closes: #381851
1675 * Misc minor changes.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1679 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1686 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1687 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1691 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1697 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1698 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1701 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1702 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1704 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1705 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1706 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1707 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1711 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1714 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1717 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1721 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1727 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1733 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1734 a difficult situation.
1735 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1736 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1737 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1738 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1739 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1740 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1741 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1742 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1743 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1744 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Non-maintainer upload.
1751 * Update of dh_python
1752 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1753 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1755 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1756 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1757 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1758 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1759 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1761 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1763 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Non-maintainer upload.
1766 * Update of dh_python
1767 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1768 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1769 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1770 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1771 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1772 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1773 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1774 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1775 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1776 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1778 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1779 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1780 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1781 the not too-distant future).
1782 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1783 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1784 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1785 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1786 thus made the build fail.
1788 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1790 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Non-maintainer upload.
1793 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1795 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1797 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1800 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1801 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1802 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1803 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1804 package. Closes: #301424
1805 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1806 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1807 fonts). Closes: #372686
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1811 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1817 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1818 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1819 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1820 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1821 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1822 above, but already depends on that.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1826 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1829 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1830 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1831 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1832 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1833 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1837 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1843 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1849 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1850 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1854 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1857 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1861 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1865 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1866 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1867 new version (0.24.1).
1868 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1869 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1872 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1873 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1874 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1875 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1876 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1877 new directory on their own.
1878 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1879 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1883 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1886 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1887 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1888 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1889 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1893 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1896 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1897 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1898 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1899 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1900 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1904 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1910 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1914 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1915 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1919 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1920 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1924 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1926 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1927 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1929 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1930 ignored. Closes: #337664
1932 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1937 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1943 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1948 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1949 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1950 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1951 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1952 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1953 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1954 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1958 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1961 version. Closes: #350607
1962 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1963 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1964 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1965 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1969 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1972 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1973 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1974 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1978 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1985 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1991 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1994 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1998 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2001 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2002 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2003 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2004 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2005 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2006 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2010 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2013 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2014 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2019 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2022 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2026 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2029 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2033 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2036 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2037 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2038 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2039 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2040 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2041 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2045 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2049 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2050 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2051 link. Closes: #346405
2052 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2054 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2055 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2056 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2057 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2058 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2059 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2060 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2064 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2071 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2077 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2080 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2087 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2092 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2096 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2097 installed. Closes: #342033
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2101 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2104 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2105 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2106 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2111 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2117 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2123 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2127 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2128 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2129 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2133 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2136 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2141 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2148 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2154 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2157 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2158 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2159 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2160 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2161 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2162 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2163 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2165 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2169 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2172 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2173 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2180 in standard man dirs.
2181 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2194 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2213 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2216 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2217 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2224 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2225 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2226 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2228 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2230 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2242 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2245 mode. Closes: #324161
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2252 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2253 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2254 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2255 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2263 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2264 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2265 is necesary for sanity.
2266 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2267 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2274 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2275 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2282 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2295 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2296 released, so use at your own risk.
2297 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2298 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2300 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2301 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2302 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2303 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2304 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2305 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2306 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2307 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2308 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2309 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2310 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2311 including twice per config file line now..
2312 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2313 and simplfy the rules file.
2314 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2315 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2316 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2318 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2319 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2326 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2333 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2340 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2347 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2348 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2349 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2350 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2351 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2352 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2359 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2360 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2361 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2369 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2370 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2378 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2379 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2380 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2385 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2388 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2389 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2390 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2394 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2410 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2411 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2412 unknown. Closes: #282924
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2416 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Spanish man page updates.
2426 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2440 * dh_desktop: reindent
2441 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2442 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2454 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2460 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2464 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2467 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2468 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2472 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2494 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2501 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2502 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2503 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2504 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2505 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2506 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2508 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2509 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2510 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2511 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2512 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2513 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2514 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2515 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2516 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2517 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2518 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2519 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2520 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2521 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2522 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2523 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2537 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2541 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2544 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2551 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2558 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2568 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2574 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2580 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2583 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2584 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2585 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2592 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2596 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2599 but occasionally right and necessary.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2603 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2606 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2607 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2608 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2609 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2610 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2617 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2619 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2620 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2621 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2622 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2623 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2624 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2625 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2626 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2627 postinst scripts for udebs.
2628 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2632 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2635 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2637 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2638 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2642 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2655 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2662 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2665 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2669 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2672 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2679 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2682 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2683 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2687 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2693 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2696 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2700 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2703 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2704 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2705 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2707 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2709 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2710 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2711 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2715 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2718 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2726 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2727 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2728 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2733 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2748 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2749 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2750 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2751 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2752 associated -dbg packages.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2759 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2763 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2766 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2773 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2780 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2788 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2795 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2803 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2811 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2812 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2813 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2814 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2815 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2816 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2817 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2818 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2819 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2820 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2827 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2835 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2836 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2843 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2844 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2852 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2859 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2866 out section number. Closes: #204731
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2877 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2892 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2893 removal. Closes: #204286
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2900 renaming. Closes: #203548
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2907 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2908 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2924 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2930 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2933 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2934 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2935 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2942 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2943 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2963 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2971 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2978 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2980 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2981 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2988 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2996 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3008 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3015 it break hard links (see #188663).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3022 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3032 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3036 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3037 debconf-mergetemplates
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3041 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3044 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3048 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3051 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3055 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3058 * Update debhelper(1).
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3062 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3065 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3066 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3067 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3068 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3069 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3073 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3076 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3077 the shell. Closes: #178524
3078 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3082 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3085 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3089 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3092 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3096 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3099 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3100 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3101 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3102 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3107 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3110 files from installation.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3114 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3117 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3118 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3122 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3125 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3129 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3132 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3136 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3142 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3148 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3152 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3153 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3155 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3159 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3162 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3163 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3164 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3165 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3169 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3172 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3176 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3179 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3180 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3184 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3188 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3193 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3199 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3203 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3204 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3205 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3213 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3214 practice. Closes: #163303
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3224 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3231 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3234 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3236 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3237 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3238 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3239 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3240 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3244 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3247 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3252 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3258 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3265 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3268 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3291 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3301 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3302 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3303 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3304 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3309 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3315 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3322 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3325 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3326 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3333 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3334 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3335 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3336 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3337 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3341 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3344 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3346 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3351 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3354 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3358 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3361 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3362 right thing. Closes: #150644
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3366 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Stupid, evil typo.
3369 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3373 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3380 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3383 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3384 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3398 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3405 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3406 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3411 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3414 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3418 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3424 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3427 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3428 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3432 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3438 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Removing perl warning message.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3444 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3447 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3448 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3449 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3450 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3451 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3452 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3453 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3454 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3458 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3464 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3471 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3474 debconf-mergetemplate.
3475 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3476 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3480 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3483 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3484 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3485 dh_install, which ...
3486 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3487 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3488 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3489 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3490 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3491 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3492 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3493 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3494 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3495 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3496 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3497 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3498 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3499 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3500 other minor changes.
3501 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3502 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3503 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3504 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3505 course there's -X ..)
3506 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3507 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3508 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3510 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3511 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3512 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3513 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3514 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3519 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3528 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3538 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3544 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3550 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3556 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3559 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3560 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3561 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3562 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3564 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3565 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3569 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3575 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3578 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3582 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3585 upset. Closes: #131322
3587 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3589 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3592 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3593 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3594 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3595 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3596 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3597 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3598 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3599 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3600 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3601 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3602 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3603 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3604 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3605 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3606 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3608 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3612 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3615 - Better indenting of generated code.
3616 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3620 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3624 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3625 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3626 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3627 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3628 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3629 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3630 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3634 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3637 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3641 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3644 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3645 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3646 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3647 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3648 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3649 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3650 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3651 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3652 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3653 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3654 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3655 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3656 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3657 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3658 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3663 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3669 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3672 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3673 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3677 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3680 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3681 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3685 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3691 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3694 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3695 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3696 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3697 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3698 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3703 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3709 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3712 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3716 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3719 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3724 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3730 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3733 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3737 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3743 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3747 Also some indentation fixes.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3751 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3754 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3755 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3756 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3757 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3758 Closes: #106514, #85520
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3762 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3768 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3774 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3780 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3786 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3792 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3795 change it in debhelper v4..
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3799 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3805 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3808 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3812 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3815 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3819 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3825 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3828 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3829 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3830 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3831 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3832 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3833 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3834 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3835 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3836 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3837 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3838 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3839 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3843 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3846 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3850 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3857 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3860 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3861 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3862 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3863 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3864 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3865 program those options go to. So, for example,
3866 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3867 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3868 something complex. Closes: #89311
3869 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3873 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3876 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3877 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3878 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3882 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3885 through loop. Closes: #98598
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3889 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Missing semi-colon.
3892 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3893 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3897 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3900 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3901 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3902 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3906 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3909 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3910 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3914 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3917 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3921 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3924 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3925 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3929 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3932 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3933 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3934 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3938 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3941 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3942 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3943 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3947 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3950 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3954 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3960 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3966 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3972 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3978 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3981 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3985 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3988 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3989 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3990 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3991 followed. Closes: #85483
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3995 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3997 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3998 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3999 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4003 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4006 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4007 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4008 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4009 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4010 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4011 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4012 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4013 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4014 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4015 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4016 Closes: #88464, #77743
4017 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4018 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4019 us to deal with that gracefully.
4020 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4022 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4023 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4024 a while, Closes: #51225
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4028 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4034 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4037 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4041 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4045 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4050 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4053 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4054 don't make packlist files.
4055 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4056 debhelper coding standards.
4057 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4058 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4062 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4065 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4069 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4072 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4073 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4074 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4075 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4076 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4077 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4078 but is mildly deprecated.
4079 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4080 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4081 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4082 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4083 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4084 switching to statoverrides..
4085 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4086 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4087 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4088 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4089 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4090 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4092 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4093 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4094 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4095 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4096 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4097 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4098 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4099 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4100 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4102 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4103 variable names, pod man pages).
4104 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4105 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4106 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4107 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4108 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4109 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4110 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4130 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4136 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4137 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4138 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4142 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4144 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4145 they were previously ignored.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4151 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4152 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4158 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4159 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4160 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4164 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4166 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4170 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4172 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4173 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4177 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4179 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4180 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4181 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4182 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4183 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4184 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4185 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4186 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4187 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4188 it is an obsolete program.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4194 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4202 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4208 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4212 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4214 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4224 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * typo: Closes, #78567
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4245 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4246 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4247 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4248 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4249 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4253 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4256 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4264 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4265 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4266 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4267 backwards-compatibility.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4271 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4274 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4275 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4276 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4277 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4278 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4279 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4281 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4282 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4283 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4285 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4287 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4288 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4289 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4290 should now be raised to severity important..
4291 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4292 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4299 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4332 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4333 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4334 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4335 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4339 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4345 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4348 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4349 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4350 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4351 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4352 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4353 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4361 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4371 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4374 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4382 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4383 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4384 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4385 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4393 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4396 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4399 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4400 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4403 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4405 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4406 the TODO entry about it.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4420 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4421 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4428 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4429 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4430 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4431 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4451 (this appears to be logal).
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4458 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4459 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4460 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4461 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4474 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4475 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4476 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4477 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4490 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4504 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4505 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4506 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4527 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4528 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4529 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4530 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4531 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4532 notice until v2 is complete.
4533 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4534 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4535 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4536 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4537 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4538 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4540 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4541 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4542 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4543 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4563 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4577 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4578 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4579 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4580 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4588 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4589 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4590 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4598 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4599 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4606 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4613 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4627 depend on the build and install targets.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4634 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4651 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4657 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4660 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4661 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4662 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4663 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4664 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4665 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4667 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4668 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4669 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4670 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4671 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4672 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4673 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4677 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4683 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4689 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4692 right place. Closes: #55065
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4696 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4703 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4706 * Copyright date updates.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4710 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4713 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4718 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4724 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4731 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4737 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4743 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4749 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4752 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4753 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4754 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4755 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4756 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4757 bits until all files have been registered.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4761 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installmanpages:
4764 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4765 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4766 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4767 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4768 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4769 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4770 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4771 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4772 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4773 otherwise change the result at all.
4775 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4776 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4777 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4778 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4779 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4784 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4790 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4793 act on files that don't exist.
4794 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4795 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4796 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4798 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4799 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4800 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4801 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4805 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4820 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4824 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4827 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4829 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4830 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4831 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4838 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4839 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4840 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4841 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4842 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4843 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4844 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4846 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4848 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4852 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4859 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4874 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4893 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4894 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4895 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4896 I made some changes, though:
4897 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4898 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4899 that is a clear violation of policy.
4900 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4901 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4902 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4903 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4904 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4905 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4906 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4907 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4908 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4910 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4923 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4930 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4931 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4952 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4953 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4954 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4955 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4956 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4957 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4958 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4972 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4973 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4986 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4990 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4993 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4994 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4998 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5000 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5005 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5009 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5016 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5017 for the dependancies to be generated.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5024 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5031 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5032 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5033 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5038 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5041 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5042 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5052 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5058 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5061 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5074 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5075 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5076 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5077 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5078 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5079 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5080 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5081 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5082 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5083 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5084 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5085 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5092 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5093 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5095 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5096 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5097 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5098 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5099 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5100 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5102 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5103 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5110 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5124 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5132 for building debhelper.
5133 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5137 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5147 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5154 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5155 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5156 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5157 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5158 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5159 it's always available.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5166 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5167 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5168 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5172 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5175 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5176 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5180 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5186 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5189 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5193 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5199 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5202 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5203 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5204 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5208 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5211 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5219 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5220 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5222 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5223 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5227 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5233 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5239 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5242 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5246 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5249 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5250 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5252 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5256 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5259 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5260 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5261 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5268 things if CDPATH is set.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5272 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5278 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5281 seems to make sense for the transition.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5285 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5288 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5293 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5296 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5297 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5301 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5304 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5308 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5311 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5312 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5313 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5314 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5318 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5324 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5327 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5328 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5329 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5330 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5331 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5332 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5333 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5334 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5335 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5336 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5344 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5345 * README: mention doc/v2
5346 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5347 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5351 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5353 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5354 be using this script RSN.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5358 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5361 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5362 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5363 more than 1 init script.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5370 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Changed perl version detection.
5377 * Changed call to find.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5384 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5386 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5391 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * Really include dh_installpam.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5400 * Wrote man page for same.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5407 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5408 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5413 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5423 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5424 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5425 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5426 x bit was being set!
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5433 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5434 well. (Closes: 38900)
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5441 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5442 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5446 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5452 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5459 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5465 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5468 help from Julian Gilbey.
5469 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5470 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5471 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5472 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5473 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5474 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5475 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5499 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5505 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5508 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5512 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5515 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5522 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5535 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5554 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5555 may be deleted. (#35845)
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Various man page enhancements.
5562 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5567 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5570 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5571 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5578 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5579 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5580 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5582 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5583 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5588 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Another very minor typo fix.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Very minor typo fix.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5609 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5610 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5623 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5624 variables properly (#34850).
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5637 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5638 (automatically generated by build process).
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5644 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5651 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5652 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5654 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5661 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5665 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * README: minor typo fix.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5674 leave it at that. :-)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5693 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5694 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5695 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5702 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5709 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5716 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5717 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5718 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5719 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5726 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5727 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5728 Craig Small for spotting this.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5735 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5736 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5746 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5749 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5755 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5756 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5757 working on the last version of debhelper.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5764 being made. (#23255)
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5768 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5777 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5781 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5784 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5785 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5786 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5787 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5794 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5795 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5796 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5797 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5799 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5800 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5802 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5807 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5822 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5823 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5824 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5825 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5826 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5827 suidregister actually supports it.
5828 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5829 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5833 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5840 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5843 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5844 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5845 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5846 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5847 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5848 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5849 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5853 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5855 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5856 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5863 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5864 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5865 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5866 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5870 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5873 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5875 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5876 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5877 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5878 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5879 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5880 effect, either. (#30118)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5884 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5890 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5893 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5894 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5904 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5907 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5908 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5909 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5910 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5914 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5917 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5918 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5922 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5928 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5931 packages, painlessly.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5935 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5941 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5947 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5953 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * The perl conversion is complete.
5957 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5959 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5960 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5961 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5966 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5969 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5970 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5971 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5975 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5978 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5980 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5982 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5983 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5987 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5990 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5991 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5995 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6001 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6004 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6005 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6006 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6007 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6008 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6012 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6015 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6016 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6017 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6018 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6022 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6025 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6029 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6032 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6033 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6034 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6035 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6036 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6037 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6038 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6039 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6043 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6049 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6052 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6053 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6054 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6059 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6062 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6066 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6069 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6073 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6076 sections of shared libraries.
6077 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6078 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6079 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6080 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6081 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6082 things you don't want them to.
6083 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6084 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6088 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6091 shared libraries. (#26414)
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6095 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6097 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6098 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6099 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6100 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6104 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6108 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6110 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6111 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6112 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6113 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6114 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6118 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6121 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6125 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6128 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6129 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6134 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6137 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6141 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6144 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6145 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6146 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6147 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6148 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6150 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6151 remove debian/files properly.
6152 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6153 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6154 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6155 * Removed bogus menu file.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6159 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6162 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6166 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6169 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6170 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6171 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6172 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6173 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6174 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6181 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6182 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6183 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6184 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6188 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6195 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6198 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6199 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6201 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6202 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6203 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6204 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6205 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6206 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6210 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6213 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6214 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6215 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6216 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6217 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6218 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6219 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6220 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6221 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6222 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6223 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6224 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6225 passed any switches.
6226 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6230 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6233 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6234 at all for a long while.
6235 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6236 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6237 large chunks in the process.
6238 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6239 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6240 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6245 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6248 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6250 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6255 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6258 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6259 that don't always have the same files in them.
6260 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6261 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6262 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6266 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6270 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6271 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6272 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6273 updating 27 man pages.
6274 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6275 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6276 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6277 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6278 programs act on. (#25247)
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6282 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6286 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6287 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6288 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6289 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6290 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6291 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6296 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6303 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6310 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6313 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6317 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6323 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6326 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6327 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6328 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6329 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6330 package by accident.
6331 * Is version 1.0 next?
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6335 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6338 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6339 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6343 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6346 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6347 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6348 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6349 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6350 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6352 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6357 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6360 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6361 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6365 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6368 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6372 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6375 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6376 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6381 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6387 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6389 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6390 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6391 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6396 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6402 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6405 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6406 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6407 past week. Thanks, guys!
6409 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6410 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6411 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6412 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6413 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6414 would do in the same situation.
6415 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6416 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6418 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6420 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6421 permissions changed.
6422 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6423 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6424 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6425 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6426 files are treated identically.
6427 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6428 * Minor man page fixes.
6429 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6430 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6431 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6435 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6438 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6439 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6440 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6441 use -X multiple times, too.
6442 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6443 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6447 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6450 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6451 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6458 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6462 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6465 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6466 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6467 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6468 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6469 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6470 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6471 shape if you're starting a new package.
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6475 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6478 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6485 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6486 because of missing symlinks.
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6490 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6496 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6499 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6500 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6501 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6502 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6503 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6505 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6506 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6510 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6512 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6513 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6514 to be changed after the fact :-)
6515 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6519 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6521 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6522 no version string after the -V.
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6526 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6528 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6529 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6534 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6537 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6541 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6544 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6545 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6546 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6547 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6548 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6549 I always welcome corrections!
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6553 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6559 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6562 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6563 * Documented this new switch.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6567 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6570 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6571 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6572 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6573 no packages use the old behavior.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6577 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6580 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6581 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6585 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6588 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6592 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6598 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6601 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6605 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6608 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6609 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6610 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6614 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6620 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6623 into the source package by accident.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6627 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6630 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6631 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6632 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6633 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6634 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6635 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6640 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6644 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6645 inspired to implement some of it.
6646 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6650 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6652 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6653 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6657 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6659 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6660 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6661 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6668 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6669 have done.) (#17598)
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6673 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6679 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6688 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6695 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6696 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6700 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6703 argument processor in perl.
6704 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6705 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6706 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6707 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6711 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6714 type directories. (#16933)
6715 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6716 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6717 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6718 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6719 are supported. (#16935)
6720 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6725 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6728 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6732 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6736 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6737 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6738 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6739 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6740 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6741 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6745 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6748 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6749 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6751 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6752 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6753 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6754 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6755 a given package, or -i or -a.
6756 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6757 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6758 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6759 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6760 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6761 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6762 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6763 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6764 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6766 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6767 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6768 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6775 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6776 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6781 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6784 does not have a section.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6788 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6791 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6792 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6793 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6797 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6799 * Fixed typo #16215.
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6803 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6806 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6807 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6808 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6809 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6810 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6815 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6818 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6819 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6820 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6825 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6837 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6839 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6840 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6841 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6842 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6843 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6844 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6845 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6849 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6851 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6855 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6858 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6862 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6865 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6866 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6867 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6871 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6874 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6878 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6884 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6886 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6887 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6891 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6894 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6898 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6900 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6904 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6906 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6907 postinst, postrm, etc.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6920 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6921 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6922 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6923 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6924 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6928 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6930 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6931 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6932 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6936 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6938 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6939 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6946 installing package files into.
6947 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6952 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6956 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6960 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6966 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6968 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6969 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6973 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6975 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6976 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6977 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6978 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6979 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6983 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6985 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6986 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6987 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6988 multiple binary packages.
6989 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6990 should rebuild them with this version.
6991 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6995 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6998 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7002 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7005 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7009 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7011 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7012 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7013 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7014 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7015 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7016 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7017 debian/README.debian.
7018 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7019 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7020 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7021 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7022 in a few situations.)
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7026 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7032 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7034 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7038 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7040 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7041 * Fixed several man pages.
7043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7045 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7047 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7048 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7049 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7053 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7056 is ready for general use.
7057 * Added man pages for all commands.
7058 * Multiple binary package support.
7059 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7060 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7061 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7063 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7064 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7065 auto-installed as parameters.
7066 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7068 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7071 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7072 the package build directory it is to act on.
7073 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7074 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7075 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7079 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7081 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7082 ready to replace debstd.
7084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400