1 debhelper (7.4.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
4 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
5 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
6 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
7 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
8 options that they do not support.
9 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
10 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
11 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
12 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
13 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:22 -0500
17 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
21 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
22 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
23 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
24 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
25 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
26 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
27 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
28 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
29 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
33 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
36 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
37 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
38 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
39 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
43 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Typo. Closes: #558654
46 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
47 installed. Closes: #558782
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
51 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
54 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
55 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
56 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
57 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
58 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
62 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
64 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
65 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
66 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
67 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
71 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
74 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
75 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
79 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
81 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
85 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
87 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
88 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
89 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
90 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
91 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
92 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
93 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
94 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
95 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
96 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
97 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
98 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
99 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
100 time soon.) Closes: #554509
101 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
103 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
104 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
105 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
106 document id. Closes: #555677
107 * Typo. Closes: #555659
108 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
109 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
110 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
111 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
113 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
114 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
115 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
120 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
123 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
124 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
125 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
126 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
127 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
128 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
129 translation (#494300 part 2)
132 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
134 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
135 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
136 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
137 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
138 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
142 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
145 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
146 (It was only run once due to logging.)
147 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
148 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
149 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
150 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
151 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
152 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
153 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
154 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
155 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
156 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
160 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
164 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
167 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
168 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
172 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
175 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
176 flag with arch all/any packages.
177 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
178 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
179 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
180 situation. Closes: #540794
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
184 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
188 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
189 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
190 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
191 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
192 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
195 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
196 the default. Closes: #538201
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
201 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
205 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
206 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
207 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
208 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
209 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
211 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
212 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
213 * Above Closes: #491117
214 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
219 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
225 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
226 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
227 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
231 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
234 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
235 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
236 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
237 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
238 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
243 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
246 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
247 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
251 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
253 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
257 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
259 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
260 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
262 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
263 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
264 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
268 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
270 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
271 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
275 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
281 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
283 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
284 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
285 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
290 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
292 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
296 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
299 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
300 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
301 created by using `python' first during build and install.
303 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
308 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
310 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
314 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
316 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
317 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
321 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
323 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
327 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
329 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
333 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
335 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
336 contributed by Modestas Vainius
337 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
338 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
339 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
340 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
341 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
342 that support it. Closes: #480577
343 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
344 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
345 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
347 - Adds support for cmake.
348 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
349 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
351 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
353 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
354 that use them. The options are:
355 --sourcedir, --destdir
356 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
357 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
358 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
359 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
360 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
364 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
370 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
373 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
374 default. Closes: #537140
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
378 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
381 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
382 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
389 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
393 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
396 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
400 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
403 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
405 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
406 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
407 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
411 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
414 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
415 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
416 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
420 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
423 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
424 warning or deprecation message.
425 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
426 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
427 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
428 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
429 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
430 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
431 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
432 Closes: #534639, #357434
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
436 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
442 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
445 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
446 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
447 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
448 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
450 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
451 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
452 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
456 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
462 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
469 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
472 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
476 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
480 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
481 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
483 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
484 file support. Closes: #494914
485 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
489 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
492 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
493 parameters. Closes: #527256
494 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
495 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
496 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
504 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
505 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
506 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
510 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
513 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
514 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
515 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
519 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
522 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
523 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
525 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
526 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
527 by triggers). Closes: #521181
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
531 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
535 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
539 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
542 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
543 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
544 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
545 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
559 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
560 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
561 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
562 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
563 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
565 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
566 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
567 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
568 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
569 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
570 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
574 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
577 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
578 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
579 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
580 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
581 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
583 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
587 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
589 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
593 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
595 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
596 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
597 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
598 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
599 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
600 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
601 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
602 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
603 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
604 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
605 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
609 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
611 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
612 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
614 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
615 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
616 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
617 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
619 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
620 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
624 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
626 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
627 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
628 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
629 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
630 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
631 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
632 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
634 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
635 that uses them. Affected options are:
636 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
637 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
638 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
639 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
640 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
641 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
642 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
643 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
644 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
645 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
646 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
647 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
651 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
658 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
664 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
666 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
667 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
669 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
670 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
671 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
672 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
673 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
675 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
677 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
678 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
679 rules (see bug #509756).
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
683 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
689 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
690 * Typo. Closes: #493062
691 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
692 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
696 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
699 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
700 empty files. Closes: #490937
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
704 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
710 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
717 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
720 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
721 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
722 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
723 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
728 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
730 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
731 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
732 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
733 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
737 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
740 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
741 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
742 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
743 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
744 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
748 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
755 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
757 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
758 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
759 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
760 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
761 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
762 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
763 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
764 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
765 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
766 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
770 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
773 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
774 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
775 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
776 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
778 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
779 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
780 breaking backwards compatibility.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
784 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
787 message in perl 5.10.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
791 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
797 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Convert copyright file to new format.
800 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
804 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
807 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
811 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
814 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
815 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
816 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
817 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
818 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
819 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
820 logging by dh_listpackages.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
824 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
827 run and there are no packages of that type.
828 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
829 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
830 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
831 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
833 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
834 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
838 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
840 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
841 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
842 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
846 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
849 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
850 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
852 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
853 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
854 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
855 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
856 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
857 planned but not yet implemented.)
858 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
859 if the Makefile has such a target.
860 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
861 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
862 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
863 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
864 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
865 but not yet implemented.)
866 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
867 recommended default, especially when using dh.
868 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
869 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
870 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
872 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
874 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
875 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
877 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
878 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
879 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
884 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
887 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
888 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
892 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
894 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
895 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
896 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
900 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
906 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
912 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
915 just those installed by the program.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
919 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
922 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
923 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
927 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
930 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
931 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
932 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
933 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
937 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
940 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
941 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
945 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
948 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
949 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
953 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
956 with policy. Closes: #461392
957 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
958 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
959 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
960 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
961 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
965 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
968 Closes: #460340, #460351
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
972 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
975 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
976 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
977 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
978 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
982 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
985 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
986 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
987 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
988 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
989 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
990 package build directory won't work.
991 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
992 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
993 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
994 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
995 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
996 mode. Closes: #459426
997 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1002 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1005 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1009 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1013 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1014 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1015 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1016 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1017 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1018 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1022 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1025 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1026 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1027 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1028 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1035 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1036 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1037 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1038 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1039 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1043 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1046 debian/package.triggers files.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1050 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1053 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1057 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1060 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1061 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1062 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1063 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1068 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1071 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1075 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1078 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1079 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1081 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1086 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1090 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1091 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1092 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1103 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1110 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1113 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1115 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1116 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1117 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1119 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1120 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1121 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1125 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1128 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1129 * Update urls to web page.
1130 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1131 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1132 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1133 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1137 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1140 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1141 - typo in alternatives call
1142 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1144 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1145 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1152 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1157 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1163 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1169 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1172 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1174 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1175 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1176 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1177 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1178 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1179 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1180 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1181 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1182 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1183 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1184 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1188 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1191 package install. Closes: #415717
1192 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1193 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1194 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1195 script and then remove the python files.
1196 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1197 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1198 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1199 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1200 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1201 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1202 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1203 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1204 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1205 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1206 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1207 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1208 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1212 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Correct typo in french translation
1218 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1219 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1221 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1223 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1224 Closes: #406921, #381940
1225 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1227 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1228 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1229 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1230 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1231 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1232 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1233 specified). Closes: #381851
1234 * Misc minor changes.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1238 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1245 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1246 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1250 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1256 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1257 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1260 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1261 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1263 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1264 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1265 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1266 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1270 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1273 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1276 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1280 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1286 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1292 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1293 a difficult situation.
1294 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1295 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1296 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1297 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1298 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1299 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1300 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1301 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1302 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1303 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1307 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Non-maintainer upload.
1310 * Update of dh_python
1311 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1312 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1314 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1315 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1316 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1317 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1318 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1320 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1322 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Non-maintainer upload.
1325 * Update of dh_python
1326 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1327 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1328 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1329 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1330 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1331 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1332 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1333 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1334 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1335 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1337 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1338 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1339 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1340 the not too-distant future).
1341 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1342 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1343 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1344 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1345 thus made the build fail.
1347 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1349 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Non-maintainer upload.
1352 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1354 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1356 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1359 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1360 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1361 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1362 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1363 package. Closes: #301424
1364 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1365 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1366 fonts). Closes: #372686
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1370 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1376 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1377 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1378 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1379 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1380 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1381 above, but already depends on that.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1388 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1389 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1390 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1391 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1392 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1396 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1402 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1408 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1409 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1416 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1420 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1424 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1425 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1426 new version (0.24.1).
1427 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1428 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1431 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1432 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1433 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1434 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1435 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1436 new directory on their own.
1437 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1438 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1445 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1446 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1447 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1448 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1452 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1455 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1456 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1457 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1458 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1459 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1463 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1469 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1473 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1474 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1478 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1479 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1483 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1485 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1486 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1488 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1489 ignored. Closes: #337664
1491 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1496 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1507 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1508 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1509 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1510 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1511 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1512 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1513 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1517 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1520 version. Closes: #350607
1521 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1522 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1523 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1524 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1528 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1531 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1532 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1533 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1537 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1544 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1550 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1553 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1557 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1560 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1561 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1562 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1563 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1564 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1565 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1569 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1572 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1573 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1578 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1581 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1585 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1588 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1592 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1595 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1596 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1597 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1598 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1599 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1600 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1604 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1608 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1609 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1610 link. Closes: #346405
1611 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1613 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1614 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1615 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1616 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1617 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1618 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1619 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1623 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1630 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1639 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1643 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1646 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1651 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1655 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1656 installed. Closes: #342033
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1663 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1664 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1665 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1670 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1676 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1686 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1687 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1688 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1692 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1695 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1713 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1716 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1717 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1718 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1719 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1720 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1721 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1722 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1724 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1728 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1731 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1732 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1739 in standard man dirs.
1740 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1753 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1772 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1775 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1776 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1783 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1784 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1785 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1787 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1789 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1804 mode. Closes: #324161
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1811 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1812 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1813 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1814 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1822 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1823 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1824 is necesary for sanity.
1825 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1826 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1833 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1834 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1841 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1854 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1855 released, so use at your own risk.
1856 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1857 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1859 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1860 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1861 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1862 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1863 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1864 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1865 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1866 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1867 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1868 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1869 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1870 including twice per config file line now..
1871 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1872 and simplfy the rules file.
1873 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1874 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1875 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1877 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1878 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1885 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1892 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1899 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1906 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1907 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1908 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1909 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1910 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1911 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1918 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1919 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1920 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1928 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1929 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1937 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1938 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1939 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1944 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1947 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1948 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1949 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1953 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1959 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1966 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1969 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1970 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1971 unknown. Closes: #282924
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1975 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1982 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Spanish man page updates.
1985 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1999 * dh_desktop: reindent
2000 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2001 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2013 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2019 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2023 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2026 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2027 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2031 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2053 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2060 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2061 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2062 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2063 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2064 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2065 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2067 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2068 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2069 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2070 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2071 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2072 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2073 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2074 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2075 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2076 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2077 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2078 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2079 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2080 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2081 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2082 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2096 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2100 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2103 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2110 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2117 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2127 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2139 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2142 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2143 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2144 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2151 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2158 but occasionally right and necessary.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2162 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2165 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2166 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2167 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2168 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2169 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2176 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2178 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2179 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2180 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2181 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2182 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2183 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2184 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2185 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2186 postinst scripts for udebs.
2187 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2191 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2194 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2196 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2197 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2201 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2224 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2231 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2235 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2238 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2241 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2242 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2255 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2262 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2263 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2264 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2266 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2268 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2269 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2270 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2277 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2285 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2286 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2287 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2307 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2308 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2309 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2310 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2311 associated -dbg packages.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2318 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2325 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2332 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2339 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2347 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2354 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2362 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2370 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2371 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2372 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2373 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2374 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2375 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2376 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2377 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2378 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2379 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2386 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2394 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2395 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2402 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2403 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2411 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2418 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2425 out section number. Closes: #204731
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2451 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2452 removal. Closes: #204286
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2459 renaming. Closes: #203548
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2466 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2467 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2483 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2489 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2492 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2493 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2494 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2501 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2502 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2522 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2527 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2530 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2537 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2539 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2540 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2547 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2555 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2567 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2574 it break hard links (see #188663).
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2581 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2591 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2595 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2596 debconf-mergetemplates
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2600 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2603 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2610 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2617 * Update debhelper(1).
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2621 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2624 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2625 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2626 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2627 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2628 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2632 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2635 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2636 the shell. Closes: #178524
2637 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2641 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2644 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2651 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2655 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2658 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2659 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2660 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2661 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2666 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2669 files from installation.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2673 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2676 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2677 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2681 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2684 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2691 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2707 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2711 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2712 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2714 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2721 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2722 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2723 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2724 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2731 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2738 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2739 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2747 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2762 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2763 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2764 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2772 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2773 practice. Closes: #163303
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2793 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2795 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2796 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2797 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2798 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2799 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2806 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2817 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2827 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2838 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2860 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2861 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2862 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2863 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2884 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2885 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2892 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2893 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2894 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2895 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2896 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2903 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2905 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2913 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2920 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2921 right thing. Closes: #150644
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Stupid, evil typo.
2928 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2942 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2943 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2957 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2964 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2965 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2973 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2986 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2987 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Removing perl warning message.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3006 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3007 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3008 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3009 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3010 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3011 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3012 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3013 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3033 debconf-mergetemplate.
3034 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3035 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3042 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3043 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3044 dh_install, which ...
3045 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3046 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3047 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3048 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3049 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3050 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3051 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3052 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3053 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3054 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3055 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3056 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3057 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3058 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3059 other minor changes.
3060 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3061 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3062 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3063 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3064 course there's -X ..)
3065 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3066 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3067 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3069 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3070 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3071 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3072 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3073 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3084 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3087 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3091 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3097 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3103 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3109 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3115 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3118 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3119 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3120 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3121 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3123 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3124 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3128 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3134 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3137 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3141 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3144 upset. Closes: #131322
3146 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3148 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3151 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3152 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3153 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3154 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3155 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3156 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3157 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3158 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3159 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3160 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3161 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3162 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3163 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3164 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3165 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3167 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3171 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3174 - Better indenting of generated code.
3175 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3179 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3183 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3184 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3185 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3186 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3187 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3188 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3189 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3193 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3196 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3200 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3203 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3204 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3205 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3206 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3207 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3208 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3209 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3210 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3211 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3212 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3213 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3214 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3215 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3216 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3217 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3222 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3228 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3231 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3232 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3236 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3239 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3240 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3250 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3253 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3254 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3255 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3256 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3257 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3262 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3268 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3271 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3275 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3278 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3283 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3289 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3292 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3296 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3302 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3306 Also some indentation fixes.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3310 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3313 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3314 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3315 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3316 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3317 Closes: #106514, #85520
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3327 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3339 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3345 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3351 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3354 change it in debhelper v4..
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3358 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3364 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3367 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3371 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3374 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3378 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3384 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3387 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3388 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3389 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3390 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3391 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3392 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3393 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3394 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3395 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3396 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3397 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3398 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3405 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3409 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3416 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3419 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3420 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3421 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3422 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3423 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3424 program those options go to. So, for example,
3425 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3426 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3427 something complex. Closes: #89311
3428 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3435 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3436 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3437 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3441 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3444 through loop. Closes: #98598
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Missing semi-colon.
3451 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3452 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3459 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3460 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3461 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3468 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3469 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3476 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3480 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3483 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3484 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3491 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3492 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3493 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3497 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3500 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3501 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3502 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3506 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3509 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3513 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3519 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3525 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3531 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3537 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3540 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3544 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3547 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3548 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3549 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3550 followed. Closes: #85483
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3554 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3556 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3557 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3558 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3562 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3565 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3566 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3567 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3568 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3569 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3570 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3571 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3572 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3573 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3574 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3575 Closes: #88464, #77743
3576 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3577 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3578 us to deal with that gracefully.
3579 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3581 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3582 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3583 a while, Closes: #51225
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3587 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3593 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3596 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3600 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3604 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3609 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3612 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3613 don't make packlist files.
3614 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3615 debhelper coding standards.
3616 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3617 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3621 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3624 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3628 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3631 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3632 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3633 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3634 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3635 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3636 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3637 but is mildly deprecated.
3638 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3639 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3640 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3641 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3642 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3643 switching to statoverrides..
3644 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3645 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3646 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3647 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3648 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3649 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3651 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3652 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3653 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3654 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3655 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3656 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3657 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3658 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3659 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3661 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3662 variable names, pod man pages).
3663 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3664 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3665 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3666 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3667 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3668 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3669 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3689 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3695 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3696 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3697 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3703 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3704 they were previously ignored.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3708 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3710 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3711 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3717 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3718 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3719 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3725 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3731 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3732 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3736 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3738 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3739 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3740 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3741 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3742 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3743 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3744 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3745 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3746 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3747 it is an obsolete program.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3751 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3753 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3757 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3761 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3767 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3769 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3771 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3773 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * typo: Closes, #78567
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3804 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3805 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3806 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3807 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3808 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3815 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3823 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3824 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3825 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3826 backwards-compatibility.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3833 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3834 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3835 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3836 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3837 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3838 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3840 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3841 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3842 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3844 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3846 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3847 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3848 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3849 should now be raised to severity important..
3850 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3851 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3858 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3869 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3891 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3892 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3893 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3894 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3904 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3907 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3908 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3909 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3910 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3911 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3912 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3917 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3920 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3924 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3933 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3941 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3942 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3943 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3944 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3952 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3955 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3958 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3959 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3962 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3964 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3965 the TODO entry about it.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3979 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3980 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3987 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3988 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3989 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3990 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4010 (this appears to be logal).
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4017 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4018 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4019 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4020 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4033 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4034 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4035 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4036 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4049 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4063 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4064 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4065 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4086 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4087 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4088 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4089 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4090 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4091 notice until v2 is complete.
4092 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4093 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4094 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4095 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4096 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4097 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4099 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4100 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4101 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4102 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4122 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4136 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4137 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4138 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4139 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4147 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4148 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4149 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4157 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4158 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4165 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4172 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4186 depend on the build and install targets.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4193 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4216 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4219 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4220 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4221 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4222 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4223 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4224 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4226 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4227 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4228 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4229 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4230 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4231 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4232 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4251 right place. Closes: #55065
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4265 * Copyright date updates.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4272 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4277 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4302 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4311 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4312 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4313 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4314 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4315 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4316 bits until all files have been registered.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_installmanpages:
4323 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4324 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4325 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4326 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4327 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4328 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4329 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4330 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4331 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4332 otherwise change the result at all.
4334 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4335 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4336 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4337 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4338 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4352 act on files that don't exist.
4353 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4354 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4355 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4357 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4358 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4359 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4360 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4379 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4386 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4388 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4389 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4390 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4397 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4398 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4399 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4400 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4401 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4402 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4403 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4405 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4407 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4433 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4443 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4449 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4452 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4453 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4454 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4455 I made some changes, though:
4456 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4457 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4458 that is a clear violation of policy.
4459 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4460 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4461 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4462 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4463 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4464 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4465 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4466 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4467 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4469 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4482 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4486 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4489 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4490 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4511 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4512 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4513 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4514 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4515 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4516 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4517 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4531 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4532 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4545 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4552 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4553 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4559 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4568 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4575 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4576 for the dependancies to be generated.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4583 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4590 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4591 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4592 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4600 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4601 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4620 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4633 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4634 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4635 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4636 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4637 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4638 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4639 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4640 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4641 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4642 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4643 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4644 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4651 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4652 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4654 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4655 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4656 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4657 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4658 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4659 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4661 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4662 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4669 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4683 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4691 for building debhelper.
4692 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4706 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4713 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4714 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4715 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4716 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4717 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4718 it's always available.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4725 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4726 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4727 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4734 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4735 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4748 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4761 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4762 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4763 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4770 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4778 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4779 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4781 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4782 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4801 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4808 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4809 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4811 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4818 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4819 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4820 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4827 things if CDPATH is set.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4831 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4840 seems to make sense for the transition.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4847 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4855 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4856 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4863 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4870 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4871 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4872 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4873 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4886 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4887 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4888 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4889 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4890 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4891 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4892 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4893 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4894 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4895 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4903 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4904 * README: mention doc/v2
4905 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4906 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4912 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4913 be using this script RSN.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4920 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4921 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4922 more than 1 init script.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4926 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4929 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Changed perl version detection.
4936 * Changed call to find.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4943 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4945 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Really include dh_installpam.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4959 * Wrote man page for same.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4966 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4967 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4982 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4983 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4984 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4985 x bit was being set!
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4989 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4992 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4993 well. (Closes: 38900)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5000 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5001 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5011 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5024 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5027 help from Julian Gilbey.
5028 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5029 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5030 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5031 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5032 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5033 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5034 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5039 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5052 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5067 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5074 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5081 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5094 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5113 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5114 may be deleted. (#35845)
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Various man page enhancements.
5121 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5129 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5130 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5137 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5138 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5139 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5141 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5142 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5153 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * Another very minor typo fix.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5159 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * Very minor typo fix.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5168 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5169 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5173 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5179 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5182 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5183 variables properly (#34850).
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5187 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5196 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5197 (automatically generated by build process).
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5203 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5210 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5211 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5213 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5220 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5224 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * README: minor typo fix.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5233 leave it at that. :-)
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5237 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5243 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5252 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5253 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5254 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5258 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5261 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5268 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5275 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5276 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5277 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5278 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5285 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5286 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5287 Craig Small for spotting this.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5294 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5295 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5299 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5308 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5312 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5314 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5315 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5316 working on the last version of debhelper.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5320 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5323 being made. (#23255)
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5327 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5333 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5336 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5343 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5344 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5345 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5346 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5353 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5354 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5355 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5356 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5358 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5359 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5361 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5381 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5382 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5383 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5384 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5385 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5386 suidregister actually supports it.
5387 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5388 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5392 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5399 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5402 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5403 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5404 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5405 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5406 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5407 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5408 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5412 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5414 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5415 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5422 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5423 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5424 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5425 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5432 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5434 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5435 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5436 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5437 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5438 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5439 effect, either. (#30118)
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5452 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5453 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5466 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5467 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5468 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5469 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5476 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5477 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5490 packages, painlessly.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5512 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * The perl conversion is complete.
5516 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5518 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5519 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5520 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5525 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5528 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5529 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5530 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5537 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5539 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5541 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5542 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5549 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5550 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5560 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5563 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5564 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5565 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5566 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5567 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5574 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5575 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5576 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5577 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5584 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5588 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5591 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5592 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5593 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5594 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5595 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5596 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5597 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5598 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5602 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5611 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5612 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5613 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5621 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5628 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5635 sections of shared libraries.
5636 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5637 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5638 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5639 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5640 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5641 things you don't want them to.
5642 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5643 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5647 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5650 shared libraries. (#26414)
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5656 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5657 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5658 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5659 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5667 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5669 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5670 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5671 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5672 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5673 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5677 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5680 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5684 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5687 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5688 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5696 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5703 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5704 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5705 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5706 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5707 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5709 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5710 remove debian/files properly.
5711 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5712 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5713 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5714 * Removed bogus menu file.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5721 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5725 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5728 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5729 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5730 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5731 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5732 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5733 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5737 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5740 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5741 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5742 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5743 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5757 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5758 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5760 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5761 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5762 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5763 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5764 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5765 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5769 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5772 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5773 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5774 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5775 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5776 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5777 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5778 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5779 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5780 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5781 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5782 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5783 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5784 passed any switches.
5785 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5789 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5792 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5793 at all for a long while.
5794 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5795 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5796 large chunks in the process.
5797 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5798 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5799 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5807 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5809 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5817 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5818 that don't always have the same files in them.
5819 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5820 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5821 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5825 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5829 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5830 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5831 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5832 updating 27 man pages.
5833 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5834 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5835 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5836 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5837 programs act on. (#25247)
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5841 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5845 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5846 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5847 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5848 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5849 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5850 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5855 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5862 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5869 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5872 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5876 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5882 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5885 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5886 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5887 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5888 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5889 package by accident.
5890 * Is version 1.0 next?
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5894 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5897 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5898 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5902 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5905 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5906 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5907 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5908 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5909 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5911 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5916 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5919 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5920 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5924 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5927 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5931 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5934 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5935 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5940 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5949 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5950 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5955 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5961 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5964 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5965 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5966 past week. Thanks, guys!
5968 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5969 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5970 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5971 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5972 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5973 would do in the same situation.
5974 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5975 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5977 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5979 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5980 permissions changed.
5981 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5982 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5983 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5984 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5985 files are treated identically.
5986 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5987 * Minor man page fixes.
5988 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5989 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5990 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5994 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5997 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5998 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5999 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6000 use -X multiple times, too.
6001 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6002 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6006 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6009 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6010 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6014 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6017 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6021 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6024 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6025 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6026 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6027 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6028 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6029 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6030 shape if you're starting a new package.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6037 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6044 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6045 because of missing symlinks.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6049 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6055 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6058 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6059 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6060 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6061 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6062 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6064 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6065 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6069 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6071 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6072 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6073 to be changed after the fact :-)
6074 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6078 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6080 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6081 no version string after the -V.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6087 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6088 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6093 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6096 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6100 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6103 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6104 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6105 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6106 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6107 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6108 I always welcome corrections!
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6112 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6118 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6121 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6122 * Documented this new switch.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6126 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6129 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6130 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6131 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6132 no packages use the old behavior.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6139 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6140 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6147 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6151 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6157 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6160 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6164 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6167 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6168 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6169 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6179 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6182 into the source package by accident.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6186 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6189 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6190 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6191 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6192 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6193 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6194 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6199 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6203 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6204 inspired to implement some of it.
6205 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6209 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6212 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6219 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6220 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6224 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6227 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6228 have done.) (#17598)
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6238 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6244 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6247 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6251 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6254 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6255 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6259 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6262 argument processor in perl.
6263 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6264 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6265 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6266 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6270 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6273 type directories. (#16933)
6274 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6275 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6276 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6277 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6278 are supported. (#16935)
6279 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6284 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6287 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6291 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6295 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6296 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6297 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6298 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6299 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6300 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6304 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6307 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6308 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6310 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6311 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6312 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6313 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6314 a given package, or -i or -a.
6315 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6316 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6317 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6318 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6319 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6320 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6321 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6322 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6323 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6325 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6326 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6327 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6334 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6335 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6343 does not have a section.
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6347 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6350 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6351 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6352 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6356 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * Fixed typo #16215.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6362 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6365 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6366 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6367 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6368 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6369 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6377 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6378 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6379 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6396 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6399 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6400 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6401 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6402 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6403 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6404 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6417 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6424 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6425 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6426 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6433 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6446 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6450 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6453 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6457 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6463 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6466 postinst, postrm, etc.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6470 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6476 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6479 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6480 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6481 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6482 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6483 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6490 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6491 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6495 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6498 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6502 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6505 installing package files into.
6506 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6515 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6525 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6528 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6532 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6534 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6535 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6536 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6537 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6538 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6542 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6544 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6545 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6546 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6547 multiple binary packages.
6548 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6549 should rebuild them with this version.
6550 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6554 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6557 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6561 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6564 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6568 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6571 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6572 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6573 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6574 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6575 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6576 debian/README.debian.
6577 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6578 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6579 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6580 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6581 in a few situations.)
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6585 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6591 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6597 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6600 * Fixed several man pages.
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6604 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6607 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6608 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6612 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6615 is ready for general use.
6616 * Added man pages for all commands.
6617 * Multiple binary package support.
6618 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6619 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6620 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6622 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6623 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6624 auto-installed as parameters.
6625 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6627 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6630 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6631 the package build directory it is to act on.
6632 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6633 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6634 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6638 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6640 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6641 ready to replace debstd.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400