1 debhelper (9.20120418) unstable; urgency=low
3 * cmake: Only pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS in v9.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:54:39 -0400
7 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
9 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
10 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
11 package is broken by this change.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
15 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
19 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
20 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
24 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
25 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
26 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
31 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
34 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
35 Added to interface documentation.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
40 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
46 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
49 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
50 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
51 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
53 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
54 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
55 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
56 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
57 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
62 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
65 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
66 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
67 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
68 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
69 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
70 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
74 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Typo. Closes: #653006
77 * Typo. Closes: #653339
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
81 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
84 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
85 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
86 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
87 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
88 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
92 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
95 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
96 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
97 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
98 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
99 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
100 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
101 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
105 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
111 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
114 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
115 may need to disable this.
116 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
117 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
118 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
119 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
123 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
126 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
127 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
131 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
134 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
135 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
137 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
138 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
139 to dh. Closes: #643069
140 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
141 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
145 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
148 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
149 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
150 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
151 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
153 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
154 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
155 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
157 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
158 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
159 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
160 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
161 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
162 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
163 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
164 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
165 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
166 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
167 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
168 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
169 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
170 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
171 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
175 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
182 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
185 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
187 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
193 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
196 Use override targets instead.
197 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
198 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
199 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
200 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
201 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
202 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
203 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
204 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
205 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
206 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
211 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
214 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
218 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
224 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
227 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
228 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
229 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
230 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
231 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
232 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
236 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
239 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
240 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
241 the targets. Closes: #629139
242 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
243 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
244 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
245 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
246 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
247 are already set to other values will not be changed.
249 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
250 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
251 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
252 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
253 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
258 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
264 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
267 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
268 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
272 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
275 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
276 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
277 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
278 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
279 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
280 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
281 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
286 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
290 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
291 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
293 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
294 changes may be added to that mode.
295 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
296 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
297 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
298 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
299 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
300 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
301 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
302 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
303 * Removed old example rules files.
304 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
308 * update french translation.
309 * Fix french misspelling.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
313 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
316 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
320 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
323 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
324 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
325 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
326 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
327 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
328 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
329 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
333 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
336 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
337 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
338 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
339 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
340 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
341 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
343 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
344 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
345 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
346 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
347 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
348 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
349 (Thanks, David Prévot)
350 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
351 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
352 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
353 target fails. Closes: #601037
354 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
356 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
357 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
358 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
359 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
360 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
362 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
363 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
365 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
366 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
367 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
369 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
371 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
374 * update french translation.
375 * Fix french misspelling.
376 * French translation update after massive man page typography
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
380 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
386 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
390 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
392 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
396 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
398 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
399 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
400 introduced by the fix to #527990.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
404 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
407 changes are planned for that mode.
408 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
409 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
410 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
411 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
412 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
413 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
414 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
415 (genesis) still uses them.
416 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
417 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
418 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
419 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
420 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
421 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
422 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
423 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
424 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
425 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
426 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
427 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
428 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
429 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
430 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
431 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
432 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
433 commands. (See #570039)
434 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
436 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
441 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
445 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
446 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
447 in control file or debhelper config files.
448 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
452 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
455 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
456 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
460 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
463 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
467 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
470 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
471 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
475 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Updated French translation.
478 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
479 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
480 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
481 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
483 * Typo. Closes: #571968
484 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
485 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
486 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
487 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
488 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
489 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
490 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
491 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
492 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
494 * dh: Improve documentation.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
498 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
500 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
501 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
502 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
506 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
509 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
513 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
516 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
520 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
523 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
524 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
525 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
526 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
527 options that they do not support.
528 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
529 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
530 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
531 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
532 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
533 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
538 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
542 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
543 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
544 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
545 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
546 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
547 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
548 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
549 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
550 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
554 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
557 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
558 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
559 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
560 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
564 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Typo. Closes: #558654
567 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
568 installed. Closes: #558782
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
572 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
575 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
576 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
577 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
578 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
579 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
583 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
585 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
586 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
587 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
588 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
592 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
595 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
596 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
600 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
602 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
606 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
608 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
609 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
610 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
611 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
612 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
613 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
614 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
615 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
616 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
617 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
618 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
619 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
620 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
621 time soon.) Closes: #554509
622 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
624 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
625 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
626 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
627 document id. Closes: #555677
628 * Typo. Closes: #555659
629 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
630 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
631 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
632 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
634 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
635 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
636 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
641 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
644 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
645 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
646 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
647 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
648 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
649 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
650 translation (#494300 part 2)
653 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
655 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
656 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
657 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
658 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
659 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
663 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
666 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
667 (It was only run once due to logging.)
668 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
669 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
670 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
671 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
672 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
673 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
674 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
675 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
676 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
677 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
681 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
685 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
688 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
689 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
693 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
696 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
697 flag with arch all/any packages.
698 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
699 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
700 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
701 situation. Closes: #540794
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
705 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
709 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
710 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
711 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
712 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
713 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
716 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
717 the default. Closes: #538201
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
722 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
726 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
727 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
728 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
729 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
730 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
732 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
733 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
734 * Above Closes: #491117
735 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
740 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
746 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
747 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
748 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
752 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
755 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
756 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
757 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
758 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
759 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
764 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
767 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
768 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
772 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
774 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
778 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
780 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
781 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
783 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
784 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
785 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
789 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
791 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
792 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
796 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
802 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
804 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
805 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
806 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
811 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
813 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
817 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
820 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
821 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
822 created by using `python' first during build and install.
824 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
829 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
831 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
835 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
837 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
838 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
842 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
844 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
850 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
854 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
856 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
857 contributed by Modestas Vainius
858 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
859 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
860 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
861 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
862 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
863 that support it. Closes: #480577
864 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
865 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
866 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
868 - Adds support for cmake.
869 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
870 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
872 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
874 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
875 that use them. The options are:
876 --sourcedir, --destdir
877 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
878 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
879 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
880 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
881 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
885 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
891 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
894 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
895 default. Closes: #537140
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
899 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
902 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
903 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
907 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
910 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
914 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
917 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
921 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
924 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
926 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
927 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
928 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
932 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
935 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
936 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
937 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
941 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
944 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
945 warning or deprecation message.
946 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
947 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
948 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
949 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
950 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
951 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
952 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
953 Closes: #534639, #357434
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
957 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
966 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
967 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
968 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
969 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
971 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
972 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
973 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
977 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
983 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
990 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
993 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
997 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
1001 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
1002 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
1004 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
1005 file support. Closes: #494914
1006 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1013 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1014 parameters. Closes: #527256
1015 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1016 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1017 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1021 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1024 (Patch from #459548)
1025 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1026 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1027 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1031 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1034 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1035 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1036 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1040 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1043 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1044 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1046 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1047 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1048 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1056 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1060 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1063 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1064 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1065 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1066 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1071 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1080 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1081 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1082 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1083 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1084 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1086 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1087 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1088 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1089 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1090 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1091 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1095 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1098 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1099 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1100 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1101 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1102 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1104 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1108 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1110 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1114 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1116 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1117 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1118 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1119 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1120 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1121 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1122 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1123 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1124 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1125 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1126 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1130 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1132 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1133 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1135 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1136 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1137 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1138 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1140 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1141 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1145 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1148 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1149 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1150 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1151 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1152 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1153 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1155 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1156 that uses them. Affected options are:
1157 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1158 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1159 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1160 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1161 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1162 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1163 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1164 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1165 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1166 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1167 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1168 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1172 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1179 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1185 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1188 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1190 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1191 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1192 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1193 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1194 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1195 than the old method.
1196 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1198 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1199 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1200 rules (see bug #509756).
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1204 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1210 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1211 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1212 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1213 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1217 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1220 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1221 empty files. Closes: #490937
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1225 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1231 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1238 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1241 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1242 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1243 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1244 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1249 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1251 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1252 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1253 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1254 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1258 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1261 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1262 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1263 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1264 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1265 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1269 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1276 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1279 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1280 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1281 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1282 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1283 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1284 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1285 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1286 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1287 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1291 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1294 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1295 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1296 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1297 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1299 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1300 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1301 breaking backwards compatibility.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1305 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1308 message in perl 5.10.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1312 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1318 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1321 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1325 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1328 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1332 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1335 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1336 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1337 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1338 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1339 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1340 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1341 logging by dh_listpackages.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1345 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1348 run and there are no packages of that type.
1349 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1350 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1351 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1352 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1354 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1355 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1359 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1362 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1363 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1367 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1370 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1371 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1373 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1374 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1375 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1376 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1377 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1378 planned but not yet implemented.)
1379 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1380 if the Makefile has such a target.
1381 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1382 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1383 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1384 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1385 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1386 but not yet implemented.)
1387 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1388 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1389 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1390 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1391 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1393 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1395 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1396 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1398 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1399 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1400 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1405 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1408 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1409 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1413 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1415 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1416 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1417 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1421 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1427 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1433 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1436 just those installed by the program.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1440 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1443 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1444 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1448 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1451 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1452 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1453 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1454 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1458 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1461 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1462 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1466 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1469 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1470 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1474 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1477 with policy. Closes: #461392
1478 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1479 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1480 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1481 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1482 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1486 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1489 Closes: #460340, #460351
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1493 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1496 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1497 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1498 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1499 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1503 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1506 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1507 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1508 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1509 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1510 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1511 package build directory won't work.
1512 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1513 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1514 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1515 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1516 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1517 mode. Closes: #459426
1518 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1523 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1526 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1534 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1535 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1536 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1537 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1538 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1539 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1546 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1547 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1548 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1549 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1553 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1556 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1557 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1558 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1559 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1560 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1564 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1567 debian/package.triggers files.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1574 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1578 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1581 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1582 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1583 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1584 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1589 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1592 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1596 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1599 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1600 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1602 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1607 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1611 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1612 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1613 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1617 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1624 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1631 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1634 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1636 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1637 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1638 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1640 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1641 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1642 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1649 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1650 * Update urls to web page.
1651 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1652 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1653 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1654 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1658 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1661 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1662 - typo in alternatives call
1663 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1665 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1666 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1673 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1678 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1693 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1695 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1696 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1697 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1698 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1699 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1700 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1701 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1702 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1703 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1704 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1705 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1709 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1712 package install. Closes: #415717
1713 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1714 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1715 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1716 script and then remove the python files.
1717 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1718 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1719 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1720 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1721 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1722 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1723 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1724 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1725 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1726 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1727 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1728 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1729 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1733 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Correct typo in french translation
1739 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1740 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1742 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1744 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1745 Closes: #406921, #381940
1746 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1748 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1749 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1750 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1751 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1752 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1753 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1754 specified). Closes: #381851
1755 * Misc minor changes.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1766 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1767 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1771 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1777 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1778 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1781 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1782 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1784 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1785 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1786 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1787 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1794 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1797 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1801 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1807 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1813 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1814 a difficult situation.
1815 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1816 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1817 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1818 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1819 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1820 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1821 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1822 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1823 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1824 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1828 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Non-maintainer upload.
1831 * Update of dh_python
1832 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1833 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1835 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1836 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1837 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1838 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1839 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1841 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1843 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Non-maintainer upload.
1846 * Update of dh_python
1847 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1848 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1849 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1850 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1851 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1852 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1853 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1854 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1855 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1856 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1858 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1859 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1860 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1861 the not too-distant future).
1862 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1863 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1864 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1865 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1866 thus made the build fail.
1868 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1870 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Non-maintainer upload.
1873 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1875 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1877 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1880 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1881 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1882 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1883 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1884 package. Closes: #301424
1885 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1886 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1887 fonts). Closes: #372686
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1891 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1897 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1898 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1899 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1900 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1901 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1902 above, but already depends on that.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1906 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1909 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1910 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1911 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1912 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1913 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1917 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1923 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1929 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1930 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1934 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1937 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1941 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1945 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1946 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1947 new version (0.24.1).
1948 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1949 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1952 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1953 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1954 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1955 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1956 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1957 new directory on their own.
1958 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1959 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1963 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1966 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1967 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1968 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1969 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1973 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1976 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1977 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1978 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1979 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1980 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1984 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1990 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1994 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1995 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1999 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2000 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
2004 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2006 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2007 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2009 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2010 ignored. Closes: #337664
2012 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2017 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2023 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2028 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2029 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2030 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2031 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2032 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2033 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2034 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2038 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2041 version. Closes: #350607
2042 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2043 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2044 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2045 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2049 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2052 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2053 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2054 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2058 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2065 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2071 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2074 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2078 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2081 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2082 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2083 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2084 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2085 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2086 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2090 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2093 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2094 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2099 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2102 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2106 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2109 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2113 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2116 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2117 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2118 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2119 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2120 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2121 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2125 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2129 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2130 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2131 link. Closes: #346405
2132 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2134 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2135 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2136 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2137 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2138 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2139 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2140 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2144 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2151 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2157 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2160 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2164 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2167 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2172 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2176 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2177 installed. Closes: #342033
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2181 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2184 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2185 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2186 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2203 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2207 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2208 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2209 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2213 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2216 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2221 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2228 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2234 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2237 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2238 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2239 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2240 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2241 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2242 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2243 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2245 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2252 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2253 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2260 in standard man dirs.
2261 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2274 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2293 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2296 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2297 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2304 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2305 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2306 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2308 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2310 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2325 mode. Closes: #324161
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2332 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2333 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2334 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2335 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2343 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2344 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2345 is necesary for sanity.
2346 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2347 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2354 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2355 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2362 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2375 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2376 released, so use at your own risk.
2377 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2378 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2380 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2381 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2382 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2383 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2384 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2385 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2386 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2387 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2388 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2389 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2390 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2391 including twice per config file line now..
2392 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2393 and simplfy the rules file.
2394 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2395 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2396 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2398 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2399 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2406 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2413 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2420 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2427 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2428 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2429 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2430 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2431 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2432 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2439 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2440 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2441 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2449 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2450 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2458 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2459 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2460 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2468 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2469 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2470 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2474 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2480 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2490 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2491 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2492 unknown. Closes: #282924
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2496 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2503 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Spanish man page updates.
2506 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2520 * dh_desktop: reindent
2521 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2522 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2534 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2540 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2544 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2547 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2548 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2552 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2574 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2581 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2582 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2583 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2584 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2585 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2586 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2588 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2589 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2590 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2591 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2592 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2593 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2594 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2595 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2596 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2597 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2598 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2599 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2600 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2601 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2602 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2603 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2617 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2621 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2624 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2631 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2638 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2660 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2663 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2664 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2665 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2669 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2672 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2679 but occasionally right and necessary.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2683 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2686 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2687 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2688 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2689 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2690 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2694 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2697 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2699 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2700 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2701 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2702 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2703 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2704 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2705 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2706 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2707 postinst scripts for udebs.
2708 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2715 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2717 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2718 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2745 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2749 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2752 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2756 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2759 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2762 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2763 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2776 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2783 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2784 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2785 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2787 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2789 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2790 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2791 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2795 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2798 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2806 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2807 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2808 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2819 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2825 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2828 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2829 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2830 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2831 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2832 associated -dbg packages.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2839 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2843 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2846 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2853 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2860 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2865 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2868 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2872 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2875 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2883 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2891 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2892 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2893 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2894 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2895 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2896 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2897 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2898 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2899 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2900 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2907 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2915 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2916 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2923 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2924 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2932 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2939 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2946 out section number. Closes: #204731
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2972 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2973 removal. Closes: #204286
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2980 renaming. Closes: #203548
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2987 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2988 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
3004 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3010 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3013 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3014 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3015 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3022 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3023 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3043 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3051 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3055 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3058 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3060 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3061 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3068 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3076 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3088 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3095 it break hard links (see #188663).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3102 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3112 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3116 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3117 debconf-mergetemplates
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3121 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3124 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3128 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3131 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3135 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3138 * Update debhelper(1).
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3142 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3145 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3146 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3147 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3148 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3149 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3153 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3156 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3157 the shell. Closes: #178524
3158 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3162 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3165 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3169 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3172 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3176 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3179 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3180 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3181 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3182 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3187 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3190 files from installation.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3194 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3197 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3198 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3202 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3205 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3209 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3212 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3216 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3222 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3228 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3232 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3233 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3235 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3239 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3242 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3243 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3244 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3245 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3249 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3252 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3256 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3259 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3260 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3264 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3268 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3283 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3284 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3285 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3290 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3293 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3294 practice. Closes: #163303
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3304 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3311 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3314 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3316 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3317 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3318 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3319 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3320 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3327 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3332 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3345 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3348 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3353 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3371 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3381 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3382 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3383 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3384 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3405 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3406 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3410 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3413 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3414 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3415 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3416 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3417 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3424 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3426 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3431 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3434 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3438 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3441 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3442 right thing. Closes: #150644
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3446 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Stupid, evil typo.
3449 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3453 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3460 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3463 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3464 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3469 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3475 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3478 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3482 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3485 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3486 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3491 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3494 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3498 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3504 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3507 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3508 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3512 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Removing perl warning message.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3524 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3527 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3528 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3529 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3530 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3531 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3532 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3533 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3534 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3544 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3551 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3554 debconf-mergetemplate.
3555 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3556 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3560 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3563 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3564 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3565 dh_install, which ...
3566 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3567 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3568 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3569 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3570 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3571 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3572 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3573 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3574 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3575 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3576 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3577 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3578 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3579 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3580 other minor changes.
3581 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3582 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3583 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3584 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3585 course there's -X ..)
3586 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3587 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3588 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3590 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3591 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3592 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3593 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3594 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3608 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3612 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3618 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3624 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3630 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3636 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3639 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3640 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3641 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3642 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3644 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3645 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3649 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3655 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3658 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3662 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3665 upset. Closes: #131322
3667 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3669 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3672 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3673 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3674 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3675 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3676 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3677 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3678 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3679 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3680 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3681 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3682 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3683 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3684 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3685 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3686 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3688 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3692 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3695 - Better indenting of generated code.
3696 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3700 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3704 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3705 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3706 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3707 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3708 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3709 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3710 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3714 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3717 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3721 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3724 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3725 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3726 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3727 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3728 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3729 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3730 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3731 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3732 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3733 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3734 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3735 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3736 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3737 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3738 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3743 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3749 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3752 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3753 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3757 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3760 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3761 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3765 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3771 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3774 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3775 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3776 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3777 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3778 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3783 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3789 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3792 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3796 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3799 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3804 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3810 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3813 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3817 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3823 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3827 Also some indentation fixes.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3831 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3834 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3835 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3836 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3837 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3838 Closes: #106514, #85520
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3842 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3848 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3854 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3860 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3866 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3872 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3875 change it in debhelper v4..
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3885 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3888 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3892 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3895 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3899 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3905 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3908 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3909 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3910 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3911 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3912 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3913 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3914 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3915 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3916 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3917 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3918 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3919 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3923 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3926 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3930 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3937 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3940 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3941 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3942 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3943 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3944 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3945 program those options go to. So, for example,
3946 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3947 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3948 something complex. Closes: #89311
3949 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3953 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3956 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3957 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3958 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3962 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3965 through loop. Closes: #98598
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3969 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Missing semi-colon.
3972 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3973 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3977 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3980 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3981 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3982 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3986 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3989 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3990 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3994 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3997 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
4001 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
4004 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
4005 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4009 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4012 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4013 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4014 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4018 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4021 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4022 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4023 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4027 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4030 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4034 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4040 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4046 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4052 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4058 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4061 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4065 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4068 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4069 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4070 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4071 followed. Closes: #85483
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4075 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4077 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4078 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4079 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4083 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4086 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4087 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4088 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4089 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4090 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4091 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4092 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4093 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4094 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4095 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4096 Closes: #88464, #77743
4097 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4098 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4099 us to deal with that gracefully.
4100 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4102 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4103 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4104 a while, Closes: #51225
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4108 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4114 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4117 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4121 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4125 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4130 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4133 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4134 don't make packlist files.
4135 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4136 debhelper coding standards.
4137 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4138 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4142 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4145 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4149 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4152 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4153 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4154 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4155 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4156 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4157 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4158 but is mildly deprecated.
4159 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4160 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4161 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4162 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4163 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4164 switching to statoverrides..
4165 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4166 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4167 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4168 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4169 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4170 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4172 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4173 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4174 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4175 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4176 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4177 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4178 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4179 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4180 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4182 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4183 variable names, pod man pages).
4184 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4185 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4186 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4187 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4188 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4189 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4190 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4210 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4214 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4216 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4217 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4218 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4222 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4224 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4225 they were previously ignored.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4229 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4231 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4232 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4238 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4239 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4240 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4246 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4250 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4252 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4253 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4259 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4260 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4261 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4262 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4263 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4264 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4265 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4266 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4267 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4268 it is an obsolete program.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4274 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4282 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4288 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4292 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4294 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * typo: Closes, #78567
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4325 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4326 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4327 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4328 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4329 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4336 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4344 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4345 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4346 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4347 backwards-compatibility.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4351 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4354 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4355 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4356 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4357 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4358 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4359 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4361 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4362 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4363 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4365 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4367 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4368 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4369 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4370 should now be raised to severity important..
4371 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4372 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4379 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4402 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4412 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4413 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4414 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4415 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4428 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4429 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4430 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4431 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4432 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4433 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4441 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4454 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4462 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4463 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4464 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4465 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4473 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4476 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4479 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4480 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4483 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4485 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4486 the TODO entry about it.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4500 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4501 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4505 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4508 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4509 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4510 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4511 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4531 (this appears to be logal).
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4538 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4539 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4540 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4541 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4554 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4555 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4556 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4557 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4570 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4584 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4585 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4586 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4607 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4608 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4609 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4610 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4611 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4612 notice until v2 is complete.
4613 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4614 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4615 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4616 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4617 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4618 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4620 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4621 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4622 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4623 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4643 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4657 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4658 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4659 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4660 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4668 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4669 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4670 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4678 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4679 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4686 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4693 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4707 depend on the build and install targets.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4714 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4731 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4737 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4740 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4741 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4742 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4743 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4744 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4745 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4747 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4748 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4749 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4750 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4751 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4752 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4753 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4757 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4769 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4772 right place. Closes: #55065
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4776 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4783 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4786 * Copyright date updates.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4790 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4793 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4798 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4804 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4829 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4832 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4833 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4834 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4835 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4836 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4837 bits until all files have been registered.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4841 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_installmanpages:
4844 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4845 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4846 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4847 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4848 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4849 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4850 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4851 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4852 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4853 otherwise change the result at all.
4855 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4856 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4857 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4858 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4859 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4864 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4870 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4873 act on files that don't exist.
4874 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4875 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4876 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4878 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4879 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4880 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4881 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4885 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4891 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4897 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4900 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4904 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4907 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4909 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4910 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4911 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4915 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4918 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4919 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4920 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4921 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4922 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4923 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4924 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4926 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4928 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4932 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4939 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4954 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4973 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4974 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4975 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4976 I made some changes, though:
4977 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4978 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4979 that is a clear violation of policy.
4980 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4981 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4982 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4983 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4984 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4985 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4986 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4987 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4988 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4990 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
5000 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
5003 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5007 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5010 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5011 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5032 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5033 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5034 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5035 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5036 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5037 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5038 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5052 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5053 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5066 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5073 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5074 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5080 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5089 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5093 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5096 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5097 for the dependancies to be generated.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5104 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5111 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5112 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5113 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5118 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5121 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5122 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5141 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5154 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5155 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5156 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5157 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5158 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5159 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5160 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5161 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5162 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5163 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5164 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5165 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5172 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5173 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5175 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5176 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5177 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5178 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5179 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5180 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5182 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5183 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5187 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5190 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5194 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5201 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5204 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5209 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5212 for building debhelper.
5213 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5217 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5224 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5227 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5231 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5234 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5235 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5236 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5237 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5238 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5239 it's always available.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5246 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5247 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5248 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5252 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5255 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5256 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5260 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5269 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5279 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5282 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5283 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5284 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5288 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5291 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5296 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5299 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5300 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5302 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5303 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5307 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5313 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5319 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5322 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5326 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5329 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5330 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5332 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5336 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5339 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5340 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5341 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5348 things if CDPATH is set.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5358 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5361 seems to make sense for the transition.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5365 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5368 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5373 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5376 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5377 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5381 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5384 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5388 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5391 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5392 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5393 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5394 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5398 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5404 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5407 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5408 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5409 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5410 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5411 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5412 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5413 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5414 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5415 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5416 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5424 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5425 * README: mention doc/v2
5426 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5427 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5433 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5434 be using this script RSN.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5441 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5442 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5443 more than 1 init script.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5450 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * Changed perl version detection.
5457 * Changed call to find.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5464 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5466 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * Really include dh_installpam.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5477 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5480 * Wrote man page for same.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5487 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5488 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5493 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5503 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5504 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5505 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5506 x bit was being set!
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5510 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5513 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5514 well. (Closes: 38900)
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5518 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5521 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5522 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5548 help from Julian Gilbey.
5549 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5550 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5551 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5552 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5553 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5554 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5555 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5560 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5573 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5585 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5588 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5595 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5599 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5602 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5606 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5615 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5619 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5631 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5634 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5635 may be deleted. (#35845)
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5639 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Various man page enhancements.
5642 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5647 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5650 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5651 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5658 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5659 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5660 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5662 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5663 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5674 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Another very minor typo fix.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * Very minor typo fix.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5686 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5689 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5690 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5694 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5700 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5703 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5704 variables properly (#34850).
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5708 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5717 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5718 (automatically generated by build process).
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5724 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5731 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5732 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5734 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5741 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5745 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * README: minor typo fix.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5754 leave it at that. :-)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5773 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5774 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5775 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5782 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5789 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5793 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5796 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5797 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5798 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5799 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5803 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5806 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5807 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5808 Craig Small for spotting this.
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5812 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5815 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5816 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5829 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5835 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5836 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5837 working on the last version of debhelper.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5841 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5844 being made. (#23255)
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5857 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5864 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5865 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5866 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5867 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5871 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5874 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5875 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5876 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5877 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5879 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5880 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5882 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5899 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5902 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5903 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5904 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5905 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5906 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5907 suidregister actually supports it.
5908 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5909 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5913 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5920 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5923 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5924 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5925 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5926 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5927 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5928 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5929 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5933 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5935 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5936 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5940 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5943 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5944 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5945 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5946 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5950 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5953 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5955 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5956 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5957 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5958 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5959 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5960 effect, either. (#30118)
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5964 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5973 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5974 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5987 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5988 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5989 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5990 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5994 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5997 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5998 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
6002 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6008 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6011 packages, painlessly.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6015 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6021 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6027 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6033 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * The perl conversion is complete.
6037 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6039 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6040 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6041 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6046 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6049 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6050 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6051 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6055 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6058 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6060 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6062 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6063 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6067 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6070 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6071 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6075 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6081 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6084 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6085 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6086 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6087 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6088 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6092 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6095 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6096 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6097 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6098 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6102 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6105 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6109 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6112 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6113 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6114 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6115 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6116 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6117 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6118 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6119 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6123 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6129 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6132 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6133 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6134 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6139 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6142 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6146 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6149 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6153 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6156 sections of shared libraries.
6157 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6158 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6159 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6160 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6161 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6162 things you don't want them to.
6163 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6164 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6168 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6171 shared libraries. (#26414)
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6175 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6177 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6178 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6179 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6180 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6184 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6188 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6190 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6191 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6192 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6193 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6194 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6198 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6201 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6205 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6208 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6209 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6214 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6217 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6221 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6224 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6225 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6226 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6227 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6228 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6230 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6231 remove debian/files properly.
6232 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6233 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6234 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6235 * Removed bogus menu file.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6239 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6242 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6246 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6249 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6250 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6251 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6252 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6253 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6254 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6258 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6261 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6262 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6263 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6264 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6268 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6275 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6278 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6279 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6281 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6282 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6283 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6284 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6285 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6286 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6290 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6293 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6294 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6295 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6296 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6297 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6298 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6299 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6300 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6301 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6302 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6303 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6304 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6305 passed any switches.
6306 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6310 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6313 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6314 at all for a long while.
6315 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6316 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6317 large chunks in the process.
6318 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6319 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6320 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6325 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6328 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6330 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6335 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6338 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6339 that don't always have the same files in them.
6340 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6341 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6342 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6346 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6350 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6351 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6352 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6353 updating 27 man pages.
6354 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6355 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6356 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6357 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6358 programs act on. (#25247)
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6362 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6366 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6367 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6368 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6369 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6370 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6371 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6376 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6383 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6390 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6393 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6397 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6403 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6406 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6407 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6408 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6409 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6410 package by accident.
6411 * Is version 1.0 next?
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6415 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6418 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6419 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6423 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6426 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6427 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6428 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6429 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6430 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6432 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6437 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6440 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6441 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6445 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6448 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6452 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6455 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6456 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6461 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6467 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6470 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6471 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6476 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6485 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6486 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6487 past week. Thanks, guys!
6489 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6490 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6491 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6492 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6493 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6494 would do in the same situation.
6495 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6496 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6498 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6500 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6501 permissions changed.
6502 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6503 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6504 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6505 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6506 files are treated identically.
6507 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6508 * Minor man page fixes.
6509 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6510 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6511 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6515 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6518 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6519 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6520 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6521 use -X multiple times, too.
6522 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6523 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6527 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6530 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6531 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6535 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6538 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6542 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6545 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6546 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6547 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6548 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6549 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6550 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6551 shape if you're starting a new package.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6555 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6558 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6562 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6565 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6566 because of missing symlinks.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6570 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6576 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6579 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6580 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6581 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6582 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6583 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6585 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6586 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6590 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6592 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6593 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6594 to be changed after the fact :-)
6595 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6599 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6601 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6602 no version string after the -V.
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6606 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6608 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6609 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6614 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6617 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6621 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6624 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6625 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6626 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6627 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6628 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6629 I always welcome corrections!
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6633 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6639 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6642 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6643 * Documented this new switch.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6647 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6650 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6651 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6652 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6653 no packages use the old behavior.
6655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6657 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6659 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6660 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6661 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6665 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6668 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6672 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6678 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6681 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6685 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6688 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6689 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6690 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6694 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6700 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6703 into the source package by accident.
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6707 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6710 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6711 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6712 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6713 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6714 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6715 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6720 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6724 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6725 inspired to implement some of it.
6726 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6730 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6733 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6737 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6740 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6741 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6745 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6748 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6749 have done.) (#17598)
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6753 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6765 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6768 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6775 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6776 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6780 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6783 argument processor in perl.
6784 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6785 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6786 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6787 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6791 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6794 type directories. (#16933)
6795 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6796 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6797 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6798 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6799 are supported. (#16935)
6800 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6805 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6808 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6816 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6817 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6818 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6819 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6820 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6821 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6825 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6828 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6829 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6831 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6832 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6833 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6834 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6835 a given package, or -i or -a.
6836 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6837 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6838 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6839 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6840 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6841 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6842 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6843 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6844 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6846 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6847 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6848 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6852 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6855 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6856 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6861 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6864 does not have a section.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6868 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6871 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6872 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6873 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * Fixed typo #16215.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6883 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6886 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6887 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6888 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6889 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6890 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6895 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6897 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6898 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6899 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6900 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6905 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6920 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6921 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6922 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6923 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6924 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6925 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6929 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6931 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6935 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6937 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6938 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6942 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6944 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6945 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6946 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6947 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6951 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6953 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6954 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6958 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6960 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6964 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6966 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6967 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6971 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6973 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6974 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6978 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6980 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6984 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6987 postinst, postrm, etc.
6989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6991 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6993 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6997 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6999 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
7000 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
7001 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
7002 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
7003 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
7004 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7008 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7010 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7011 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7012 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7016 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7018 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7019 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7023 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7025 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7026 installing package files into.
7027 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7032 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7034 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7036 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7040 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7042 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7046 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7048 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7049 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7053 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7056 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7057 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7058 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7059 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7063 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7065 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7066 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7067 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7068 multiple binary packages.
7069 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7070 should rebuild them with this version.
7071 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7075 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7077 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7078 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7082 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7084 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7085 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7089 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7091 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7092 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7093 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7094 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7095 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7096 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7097 debian/README.debian.
7098 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7099 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7100 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7101 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7102 in a few situations.)
7104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7106 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7108 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7112 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7114 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7118 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7120 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7121 * Fixed several man pages.
7123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7125 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7127 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7128 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7129 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7133 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7135 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7136 is ready for general use.
7137 * Added man pages for all commands.
7138 * Multiple binary package support.
7139 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7140 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7141 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7143 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7144 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7145 auto-installed as parameters.
7146 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7148 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7151 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7152 the package build directory it is to act on.
7153 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7154 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7155 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7159 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7161 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7162 ready to replace debstd.
7164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400