1 debhelper (9.20120417) unstable; urgency=low
3 * cmake: Pass CPPFLAGS in CFLAGS. Closes: #668813
4 Thanks, Simon Ruderich for the patch and for verifying no affected
5 package is broken by this change.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:10:29 -0400
9 debhelper (9.20120410) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Fix a typo. Closes: #665891
13 * Conflict with too old automake for AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no. Closes: #666901
14 * dh_md5sums: Don't skip DEBIAN directories other than the control files
18 * dh_installinit: rework upstart handling to comply with new policy
19 proposal; packages will ship both an init script and an upstart job,
20 instead of just an upstart job and a symlink to a compat wrapper.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:51:15 -0400
25 debhelper (9.20120322) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Revert avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
28 It breaks dh_usrlocal and must be considered part of its interface.
29 Added to interface documentation.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:37:56 -0400
34 debhelper (9.20120312) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Also include CFLAGS in ld line for perl. Closes: #662666
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:27:06 -0400
40 debhelper (9.20120311) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
43 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
44 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
45 * Avoid expanding shell metacharacters in sed call in autoscript().
47 * dh_auto_configure: Pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.PL,
48 in compat level v9. Closes: #662666
49 Thanks, Dominic Hargreaves for the patch.
50 Thanks, Alessandro Ghedini, Niko Tyni, and Dominic Hargreaves for
51 testing all relevant packages to verify the safety of this late
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:28:33 -0400
56 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
59 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
60 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
61 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
62 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
63 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
64 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
68 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Typo. Closes: #653006
71 * Typo. Closes: #653339
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
75 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
78 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
79 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
80 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
81 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
82 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
86 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
89 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
90 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
91 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
92 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
93 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
94 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
95 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
99 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
105 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
108 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
109 may need to disable this.
110 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
111 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
112 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
113 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
117 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
120 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
121 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
125 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
128 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
129 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
131 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
132 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
133 to dh. Closes: #643069
134 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
135 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
139 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
142 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
143 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
144 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
145 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
147 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
148 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
149 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
151 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
152 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
153 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
154 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
155 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
156 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
157 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
158 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
159 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
160 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
161 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
162 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
163 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
164 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
165 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
169 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
176 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
179 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
181 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
187 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
190 Use override targets instead.
191 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
192 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
193 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
194 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
195 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
196 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
197 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
198 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
199 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
200 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
205 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
208 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
212 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
218 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
221 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
222 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
223 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
224 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
225 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
226 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
230 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
233 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
234 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
235 the targets. Closes: #629139
236 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
237 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
238 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
239 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
240 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
241 are already set to other values will not be changed.
243 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
244 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
245 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
246 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
247 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
252 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
258 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
261 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
262 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
266 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
269 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
270 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
271 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
272 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
273 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
274 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
275 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
280 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
284 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
285 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
287 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
288 changes may be added to that mode.
289 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
290 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
291 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
292 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
293 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
294 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
295 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
296 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
297 * Removed old example rules files.
298 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
302 * update french translation.
303 * Fix french misspelling.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
307 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
310 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
314 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
317 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
318 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
319 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
320 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
321 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
322 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
323 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
327 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
331 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
332 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
333 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
334 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
335 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
337 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
338 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
339 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
340 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
341 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
342 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
343 (Thanks, David Prévot)
344 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
345 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
346 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
347 target fails. Closes: #601037
348 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
350 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
351 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
352 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
353 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
354 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
356 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
357 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
359 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
360 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
361 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
363 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
365 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
368 * update french translation.
369 * Fix french misspelling.
370 * French translation update after massive man page typography
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
374 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
380 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
384 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
386 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
390 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
392 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
393 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
394 introduced by the fix to #527990.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
398 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
401 changes are planned for that mode.
402 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
403 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
404 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
405 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
406 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
407 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
408 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
409 (genesis) still uses them.
410 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
411 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
412 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
413 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
414 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
415 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
416 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
417 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
418 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
419 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
420 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
421 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
422 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
423 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
424 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
425 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
426 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
427 commands. (See #570039)
428 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
430 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
435 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
439 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
440 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
441 in control file or debhelper config files.
442 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
446 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
449 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
450 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
454 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
457 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
461 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
464 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
465 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
469 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Updated French translation.
472 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
473 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
474 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
475 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
477 * Typo. Closes: #571968
478 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
479 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
480 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
481 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
482 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
483 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
484 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
485 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
486 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
488 * dh: Improve documentation.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
492 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
494 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
495 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
496 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
500 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
503 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
507 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
510 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
514 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
517 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
518 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
519 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
520 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
521 options that they do not support.
522 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
523 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
524 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
525 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
526 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
527 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
532 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
536 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
537 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
538 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
539 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
540 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
541 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
542 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
543 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
544 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
548 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
551 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
552 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
553 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
554 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
558 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Typo. Closes: #558654
561 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
562 installed. Closes: #558782
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
566 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
569 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
570 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
571 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
572 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
573 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
577 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
579 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
580 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
581 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
582 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
586 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
589 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
590 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
594 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
596 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
600 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
602 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
603 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
604 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
605 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
606 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
607 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
608 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
609 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
610 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
611 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
612 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
613 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
614 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
615 time soon.) Closes: #554509
616 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
618 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
619 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
620 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
621 document id. Closes: #555677
622 * Typo. Closes: #555659
623 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
624 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
625 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
626 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
628 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
629 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
630 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
635 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
638 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
639 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
640 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
641 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
642 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
643 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
644 translation (#494300 part 2)
647 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
649 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
650 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
651 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
652 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
653 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
657 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
660 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
661 (It was only run once due to logging.)
662 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
663 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
664 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
665 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
666 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
667 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
668 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
669 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
670 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
671 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
675 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
679 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
682 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
683 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
687 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
690 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
691 flag with arch all/any packages.
692 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
693 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
694 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
695 situation. Closes: #540794
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
699 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
703 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
704 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
705 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
706 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
707 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
710 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
711 the default. Closes: #538201
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
716 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
720 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
721 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
722 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
723 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
724 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
726 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
727 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
728 * Above Closes: #491117
729 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
734 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
740 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
741 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
742 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
746 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
749 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
750 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
751 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
752 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
753 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
758 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
761 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
762 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
766 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
768 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
772 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
774 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
775 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
777 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
778 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
779 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
783 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
785 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
786 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
790 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
796 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
798 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
799 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
800 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
805 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
807 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
811 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
814 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
815 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
816 created by using `python' first during build and install.
818 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
823 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
825 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
829 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
831 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
832 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
836 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
838 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
842 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
844 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
848 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
850 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
851 contributed by Modestas Vainius
852 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
853 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
854 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
855 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
856 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
857 that support it. Closes: #480577
858 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
859 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
860 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
862 - Adds support for cmake.
863 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
864 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
866 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
868 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
869 that use them. The options are:
870 --sourcedir, --destdir
871 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
872 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
873 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
874 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
875 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
879 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
885 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
888 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
889 default. Closes: #537140
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
893 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
896 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
897 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
901 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
904 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
908 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
911 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
915 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
918 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
920 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
921 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
922 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
926 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
929 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
930 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
931 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
935 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
938 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
939 warning or deprecation message.
940 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
941 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
942 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
943 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
944 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
945 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
946 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
947 Closes: #534639, #357434
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
951 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
957 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
960 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
961 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
962 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
963 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
965 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
966 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
967 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
971 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
977 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
984 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
987 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
991 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
995 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
996 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
998 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
999 file support. Closes: #494914
1000 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
1004 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
1007 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
1008 parameters. Closes: #527256
1009 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
1010 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
1011 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
1015 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
1018 (Patch from #459548)
1019 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
1020 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
1021 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
1028 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
1029 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
1030 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
1034 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
1037 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
1038 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
1040 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
1041 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
1042 by triggers). Closes: #521181
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
1046 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1050 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1054 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1057 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1058 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1059 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1060 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1065 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1071 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1074 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1075 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1076 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1077 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1078 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1080 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1081 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1082 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1083 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1084 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1085 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1089 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1092 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1093 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1094 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1095 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1096 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1098 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1102 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1104 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1108 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1110 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1111 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1112 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1113 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1114 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1115 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1116 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1117 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1118 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1119 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1120 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1124 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1126 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1127 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1129 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1130 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1131 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1132 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1134 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1135 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1139 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1141 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1142 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1143 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1144 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1145 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1146 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1147 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1149 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1150 that uses them. Affected options are:
1151 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1152 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1153 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1154 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1155 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1156 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1157 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1158 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1159 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1160 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1161 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1162 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1166 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1173 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1179 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1182 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1184 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1185 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1186 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1187 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1188 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1189 than the old method.
1190 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1192 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1193 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1194 rules (see bug #509756).
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1198 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1204 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1205 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1206 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1207 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1211 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1214 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1215 empty files. Closes: #490937
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1219 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1225 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1232 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1235 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1236 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1237 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1238 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1243 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1245 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1246 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1247 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1248 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1252 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1255 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1256 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1257 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1258 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1259 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1263 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1270 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1273 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1274 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1275 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1276 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1277 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1278 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1279 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1280 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1281 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1285 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1288 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1289 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1290 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1291 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1293 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1294 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1295 breaking backwards compatibility.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1299 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1302 message in perl 5.10.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1306 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1312 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1315 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1319 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1322 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1326 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1329 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1330 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1331 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1332 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1333 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1334 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1335 logging by dh_listpackages.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1339 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1342 run and there are no packages of that type.
1343 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1344 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1345 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1346 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1348 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1349 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1353 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1356 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1357 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1361 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1364 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1365 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1367 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1368 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1369 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1370 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1371 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1372 planned but not yet implemented.)
1373 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1374 if the Makefile has such a target.
1375 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1376 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1377 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1378 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1379 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1380 but not yet implemented.)
1381 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1382 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1383 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1384 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1385 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1387 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1389 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1390 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1392 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1393 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1394 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1399 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1402 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1403 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1407 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1409 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1410 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1411 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1415 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1421 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1427 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1430 just those installed by the program.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1434 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1437 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1438 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1442 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1445 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1446 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1447 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1448 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1452 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1455 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1456 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1460 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1463 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1464 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1468 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1471 with policy. Closes: #461392
1472 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1473 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1474 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1475 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1476 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1480 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1483 Closes: #460340, #460351
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1487 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1490 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1491 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1492 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1493 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1497 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1500 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1501 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1502 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1503 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1504 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1505 package build directory won't work.
1506 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1507 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1508 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1509 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1510 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1511 mode. Closes: #459426
1512 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1517 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1520 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1524 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1528 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1529 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1530 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1531 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1532 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1533 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1537 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1540 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1541 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1542 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1543 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1547 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1550 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1551 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1552 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1553 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1554 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1558 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1561 debian/package.triggers files.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1565 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1568 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1572 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1575 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1576 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1577 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1578 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1583 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1586 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1590 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1593 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1594 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1596 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1601 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1605 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1606 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1607 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1611 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1618 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1625 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1628 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1630 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1631 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1632 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1634 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1635 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1636 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1640 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1643 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1644 * Update urls to web page.
1645 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1646 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1647 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1648 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1652 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1655 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1656 - typo in alternatives call
1657 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1659 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1660 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1667 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1672 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1678 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1687 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1689 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1690 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1691 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1692 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1693 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1694 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1695 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1696 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1697 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1698 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1699 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1703 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1706 package install. Closes: #415717
1707 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1708 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1709 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1710 script and then remove the python files.
1711 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1712 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1713 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1714 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1715 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1716 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1717 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1718 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1719 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1720 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1721 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1722 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1723 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1727 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Correct typo in french translation
1733 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1734 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1736 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1738 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1739 Closes: #406921, #381940
1740 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1742 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1743 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1744 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1745 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1746 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1747 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1748 specified). Closes: #381851
1749 * Misc minor changes.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1760 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1761 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1765 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1771 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1772 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1775 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1776 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1778 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1779 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1780 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1781 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1785 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1788 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1791 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1795 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1801 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1807 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1808 a difficult situation.
1809 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1810 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1811 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1812 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1813 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1814 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1815 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1816 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1817 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1818 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1822 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Non-maintainer upload.
1825 * Update of dh_python
1826 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1827 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1829 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1830 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1831 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1832 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1833 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1835 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1837 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Non-maintainer upload.
1840 * Update of dh_python
1841 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1842 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1843 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1844 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1845 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1846 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1847 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1848 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1849 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1850 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1852 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1853 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1854 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1855 the not too-distant future).
1856 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1857 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1858 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1859 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1860 thus made the build fail.
1862 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1864 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Non-maintainer upload.
1867 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1869 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1871 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1874 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1875 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1876 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1877 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1878 package. Closes: #301424
1879 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1880 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1881 fonts). Closes: #372686
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1885 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1891 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1892 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1893 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1894 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1895 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1896 above, but already depends on that.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1900 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1903 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1904 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1905 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1906 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1907 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1911 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1917 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1923 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1924 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1928 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1931 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1935 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1939 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1940 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1941 new version (0.24.1).
1942 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1943 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1946 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1947 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1948 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1949 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1950 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1951 new directory on their own.
1952 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1953 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1957 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1960 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1961 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1962 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1963 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1967 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1970 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1971 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1972 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1973 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1974 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1978 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1984 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1988 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1989 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1993 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1994 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1998 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
2000 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
2001 || exit 0 instead of the intended
2003 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
2004 ignored. Closes: #337664
2006 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
2011 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
2017 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
2022 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
2023 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
2024 the dh_installdebconf manpage
2025 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
2026 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
2027 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
2028 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
2032 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
2035 version. Closes: #350607
2036 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
2037 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
2038 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
2039 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
2043 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
2046 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2047 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2048 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2052 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2059 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2065 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2068 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2072 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2075 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2076 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2077 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2078 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2079 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2080 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2087 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2088 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2093 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2096 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2100 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2103 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2107 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2110 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2111 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2112 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2113 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2114 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2115 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2119 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2123 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2124 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2125 link. Closes: #346405
2126 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2128 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2129 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2130 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2131 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2132 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2133 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2134 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2145 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2151 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2154 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2158 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2161 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2166 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2170 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2171 installed. Closes: #342033
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2178 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2179 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2180 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2185 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2191 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2197 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2201 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2202 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2203 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2207 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2210 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2215 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2222 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2228 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2231 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2232 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2233 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2234 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2235 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2236 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2237 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2239 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2246 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2247 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2254 in standard man dirs.
2255 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2268 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2287 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2290 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2291 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2298 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2299 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2300 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2302 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2304 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2319 mode. Closes: #324161
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2323 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2326 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2327 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2328 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2329 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2337 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2338 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2339 is necesary for sanity.
2340 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2341 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2348 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2349 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2356 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2369 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2370 released, so use at your own risk.
2371 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2372 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2374 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2375 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2376 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2377 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2378 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2379 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2380 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2381 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2382 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2383 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2384 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2385 including twice per config file line now..
2386 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2387 and simplfy the rules file.
2388 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2389 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2390 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2392 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2393 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2400 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2407 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2414 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2421 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2422 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2423 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2424 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2425 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2426 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2433 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2434 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2435 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2440 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2443 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2444 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2452 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2453 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2454 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2459 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2462 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2463 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2464 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2474 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2484 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2485 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2486 unknown. Closes: #282924
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2490 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2497 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Spanish man page updates.
2500 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2514 * dh_desktop: reindent
2515 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2516 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2528 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2534 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2538 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2541 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2542 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2546 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2568 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2575 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2576 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2577 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2578 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2579 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2580 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2582 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2583 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2584 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2585 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2586 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2587 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2588 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2589 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2590 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2591 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2592 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2593 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2594 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2595 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2596 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2597 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2611 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2615 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2618 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2625 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2632 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2642 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2657 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2658 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2659 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2663 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2666 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2670 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2673 but occasionally right and necessary.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2677 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2680 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2681 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2682 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2683 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2684 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2691 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2693 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2694 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2695 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2696 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2697 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2698 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2699 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2700 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2701 postinst scripts for udebs.
2702 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2706 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2709 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2711 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2712 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2716 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2739 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2743 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2746 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2750 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2753 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2756 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2757 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2761 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2767 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2770 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2777 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2778 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2779 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2781 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2783 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2784 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2785 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2792 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2800 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2801 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2802 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2807 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2822 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2823 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2824 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2825 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2826 associated -dbg packages.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2833 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2840 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2847 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2854 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2862 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2869 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2874 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2877 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2885 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2886 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2887 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2888 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2889 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2890 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2891 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2892 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2893 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2894 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2901 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2906 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2909 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2910 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2917 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2918 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2923 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2926 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2933 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2940 out section number. Closes: #204731
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2966 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2967 removal. Closes: #204286
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2971 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2974 renaming. Closes: #203548
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2981 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2982 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2998 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
3004 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
3007 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
3008 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
3009 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
3016 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
3017 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
3037 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
3045 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3052 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3054 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3055 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3062 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3070 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3082 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3089 it break hard links (see #188663).
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3093 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3096 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3100 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3106 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3110 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3111 debconf-mergetemplates
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3115 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3118 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3122 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3125 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3129 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3132 * Update debhelper(1).
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3136 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3139 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3140 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3141 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3142 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3143 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3147 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3150 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3151 the shell. Closes: #178524
3152 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3156 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3159 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3163 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3166 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3170 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3173 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3174 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3175 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3176 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3181 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3184 files from installation.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3188 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3191 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3192 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3196 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3199 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3203 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3206 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3210 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3216 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3222 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3226 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3227 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3229 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3233 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3236 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3237 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3238 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3239 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3243 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3246 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3250 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3253 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3254 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3258 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3262 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3277 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3278 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3279 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3284 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3287 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3288 practice. Closes: #163303
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3292 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3305 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3308 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3310 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3311 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3312 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3313 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3314 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3318 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3321 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3326 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3332 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3339 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3342 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3347 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3353 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3365 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3375 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3376 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3377 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3378 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3383 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3399 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3400 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3404 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3407 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3408 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3409 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3410 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3411 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3415 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3418 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3420 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3425 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3428 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3432 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3435 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3436 right thing. Closes: #150644
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3440 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Stupid, evil typo.
3443 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3454 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3457 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3458 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3463 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3469 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3472 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3476 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3479 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3480 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3488 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3492 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3498 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3501 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3502 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3506 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3512 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Removing perl warning message.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3518 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3521 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3522 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3523 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3524 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3525 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3526 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3527 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3528 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3532 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3538 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3545 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3548 debconf-mergetemplate.
3549 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3550 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3554 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3557 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3558 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3559 dh_install, which ...
3560 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3561 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3562 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3563 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3564 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3565 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3566 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3567 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3568 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3569 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3570 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3571 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3572 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3573 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3574 other minor changes.
3575 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3576 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3577 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3578 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3579 course there's -X ..)
3580 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3581 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3582 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3584 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3585 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3586 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3587 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3588 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3593 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3602 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3606 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3612 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3618 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3624 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3630 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3633 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3634 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3635 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3636 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3638 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3639 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3643 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3649 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3652 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3656 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3659 upset. Closes: #131322
3661 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3663 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3666 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3667 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3668 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3669 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3670 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3671 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3672 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3673 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3674 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3675 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3676 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3677 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3678 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3679 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3680 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3682 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3686 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3689 - Better indenting of generated code.
3690 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3694 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3698 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3699 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3700 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3701 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3702 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3703 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3704 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3708 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3711 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3715 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3718 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3719 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3720 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3721 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3722 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3723 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3724 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3725 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3726 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3727 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3728 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3729 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3730 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3731 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3732 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3737 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3743 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3746 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3747 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3751 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3754 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3755 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3759 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3765 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3768 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3769 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3770 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3771 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3772 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3777 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3783 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3786 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3790 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3793 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3798 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3804 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3807 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3811 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3817 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3821 Also some indentation fixes.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3825 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3828 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3829 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3830 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3831 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3832 Closes: #106514, #85520
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3836 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3842 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3848 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3854 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3860 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3866 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3869 change it in debhelper v4..
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3873 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3882 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3889 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3893 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3899 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3902 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3903 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3904 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3905 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3906 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3907 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3908 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3909 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3910 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3911 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3912 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3913 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3917 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3920 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3931 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3934 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3935 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3936 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3937 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3938 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3939 program those options go to. So, for example,
3940 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3941 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3942 something complex. Closes: #89311
3943 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3947 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3950 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3951 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3952 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3959 through loop. Closes: #98598
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3963 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Missing semi-colon.
3966 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3967 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3971 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3974 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3975 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3976 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3980 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3983 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3984 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3988 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3991 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3995 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3998 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3999 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
4003 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
4006 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
4007 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
4008 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
4012 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
4015 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
4016 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
4017 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
4021 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
4024 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
4028 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
4034 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Typo, Closes: #92407
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
4040 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
4046 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4052 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4055 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4059 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4062 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4063 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4064 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4065 followed. Closes: #85483
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4069 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4071 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4072 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4073 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4077 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4080 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4081 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4082 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4083 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4084 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4085 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4086 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4087 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4088 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4089 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4090 Closes: #88464, #77743
4091 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4092 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4093 us to deal with that gracefully.
4094 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4096 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4097 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4098 a while, Closes: #51225
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4102 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4108 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4111 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4115 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4119 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4124 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4127 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4128 don't make packlist files.
4129 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4130 debhelper coding standards.
4131 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4132 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4136 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4139 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4143 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4146 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4147 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4148 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4149 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4150 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4151 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4152 but is mildly deprecated.
4153 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4154 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4155 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4156 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4157 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4158 switching to statoverrides..
4159 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4160 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4161 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4162 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4163 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4164 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4166 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4167 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4168 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4169 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4170 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4171 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4172 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4173 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4174 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4176 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4177 variable names, pod man pages).
4178 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4179 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4180 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4181 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4182 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4183 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4184 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4204 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4208 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4210 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4211 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4212 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4216 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4218 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4219 they were previously ignored.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4223 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4225 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4226 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4230 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4232 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4233 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4234 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4238 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4240 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4246 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4247 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4251 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4253 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4254 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4255 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4256 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4257 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4258 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4259 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4260 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4261 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4262 it is an obsolete program.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4268 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4272 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4276 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4282 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4284 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4286 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4288 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * typo: Closes, #78567
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4304 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4319 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4320 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4321 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4322 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4323 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4327 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4330 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4335 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4338 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4339 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4340 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4341 backwards-compatibility.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4345 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4348 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4349 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4350 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4351 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4352 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4353 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4355 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4356 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4357 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4359 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4361 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4362 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4363 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4364 should now be raised to severity important..
4365 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4366 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4373 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4378 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4406 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4407 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4408 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4409 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4422 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4423 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4424 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4425 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4426 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4427 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4435 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4439 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4448 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4456 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4457 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4458 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4459 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4467 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4470 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4473 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4474 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4477 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4479 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4480 the TODO entry about it.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4494 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4495 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4502 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4503 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4504 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4505 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4522 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4525 (this appears to be logal).
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4529 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4532 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4533 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4534 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4535 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4548 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4549 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4550 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4551 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4564 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4578 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4579 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4580 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4585 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4592 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4601 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4602 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4603 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4604 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4605 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4606 notice until v2 is complete.
4607 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatible
4608 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4609 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4610 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4611 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4612 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4614 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4615 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4616 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4617 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4637 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4651 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4652 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4653 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4654 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4662 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4663 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4664 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4669 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4672 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4673 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4680 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4687 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4701 depend on the build and install targets.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4708 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4725 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4731 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4734 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4735 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4736 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4737 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4738 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4739 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4741 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4742 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4743 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4744 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4745 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4746 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4747 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4751 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4757 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4766 right place. Closes: #55065
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4770 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4777 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4780 * Copyright date updates.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4784 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4787 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4792 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4798 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4805 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4823 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4826 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4827 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4828 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4829 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4830 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4831 bits until all files have been registered.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installmanpages:
4838 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4839 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4840 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4841 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4842 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4843 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4844 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4845 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4846 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4847 otherwise change the result at all.
4849 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4850 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4851 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4852 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4853 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4858 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4864 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4867 act on files that don't exist.
4868 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4869 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4870 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4872 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4873 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4874 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4875 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4879 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4885 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4891 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4894 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4898 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4901 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4903 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4904 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4905 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4909 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4912 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4913 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4914 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4915 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4916 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4917 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4918 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4920 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4922 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4926 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4933 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4939 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4948 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4967 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4968 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4969 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4970 I made some changes, though:
4971 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4972 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4973 that is a clear violation of policy.
4974 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4975 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4976 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4977 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4978 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4979 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4980 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4981 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4982 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4984 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4997 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
5004 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
5005 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
5026 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
5027 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
5028 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
5029 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
5030 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
5031 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
5032 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
5046 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5047 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5051 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5060 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5067 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5068 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5074 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5083 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5090 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5091 for the dependancies to be generated.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5098 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5105 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5106 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5107 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5112 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5115 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5116 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5135 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5148 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5149 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5150 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5151 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5152 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5153 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5154 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5155 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5156 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5157 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5158 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5159 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5166 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5167 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5169 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5170 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5171 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5172 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5173 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5174 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5176 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5177 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5181 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5184 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5188 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5195 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5198 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5203 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5206 for building debhelper.
5207 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5211 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5218 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5221 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5225 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5228 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5229 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5230 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5231 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5232 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5233 it's always available.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5237 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5240 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5241 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5242 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5246 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5249 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5250 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5254 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5260 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5263 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5267 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5276 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5277 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5278 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5282 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5285 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5290 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5293 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5294 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5296 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5297 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5301 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5307 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5313 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5316 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5320 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5323 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5324 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5326 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5330 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5333 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5334 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5335 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5339 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5342 things if CDPATH is set.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5346 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5352 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5355 seems to make sense for the transition.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5359 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5362 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5367 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5370 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5371 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5375 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5378 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5382 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5385 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5386 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5387 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5388 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5392 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5398 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5401 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5402 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5403 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5404 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5405 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5406 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5407 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5408 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5409 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5410 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatible with
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5415 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5418 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5419 * README: mention doc/v2
5420 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5421 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5425 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5427 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5428 be using this script RSN.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5432 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5435 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5436 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5437 more than 1 init script.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5444 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5448 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Changed perl version detection.
5451 * Changed call to find.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5458 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5460 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5465 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Really include dh_installpam.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5471 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5474 * Wrote man page for same.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5481 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5482 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5497 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5498 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5499 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5500 x bit was being set!
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5507 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5508 well. (Closes: 38900)
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5512 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5515 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5516 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5542 help from Julian Gilbey.
5543 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5544 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5545 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5546 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5547 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5548 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5549 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5554 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5560 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5567 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5573 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5582 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5589 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5593 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5596 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5606 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5609 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5613 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5619 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5625 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5628 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5629 may be deleted. (#35845)
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5633 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * Various man page enhancements.
5636 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5644 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5645 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5652 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5653 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5654 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5656 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5657 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5662 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5668 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * Another very minor typo fix.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5674 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Very minor typo fix.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5683 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5684 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5688 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5694 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5697 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5698 variables properly (#34850).
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5702 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5708 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5711 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5712 (automatically generated by build process).
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5716 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5718 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5725 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5726 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5728 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5735 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * README: minor typo fix.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5745 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5748 leave it at that. :-)
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5767 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5768 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5769 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5776 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5783 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5787 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5790 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5791 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5792 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5793 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5800 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5801 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5802 Craig Small for spotting this.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5806 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5809 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5810 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5814 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5823 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5829 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5830 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5831 working on the last version of debhelper.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5838 being made. (#23255)
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5851 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5858 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5859 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5860 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5861 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5865 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5868 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5869 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5870 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5871 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5873 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5874 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5876 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5896 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5897 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5898 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5899 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5900 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5901 suidregister actually supports it.
5902 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5903 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5907 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5914 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5917 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5918 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5919 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5920 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5921 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5922 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5923 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5927 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5929 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5930 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5934 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5937 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5938 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5939 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5940 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5944 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5947 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5949 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5950 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5951 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5952 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5953 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5954 effect, either. (#30118)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5958 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5964 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5967 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5968 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5972 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5981 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5982 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5983 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5984 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5988 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5991 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5992 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5996 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
6002 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
6005 packages, painlessly.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
6009 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
6015 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
6021 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
6027 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * The perl conversion is complete.
6031 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
6033 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
6034 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
6035 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
6040 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
6043 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
6044 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
6045 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6049 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6052 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6054 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6056 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6057 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6061 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6064 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6065 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6069 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6075 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6078 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6079 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6080 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6081 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6082 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6086 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6089 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6090 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6091 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6092 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6096 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6099 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6103 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6106 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6107 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6108 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6109 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6110 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6111 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6112 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6113 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6117 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6123 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6126 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6127 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6128 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6133 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6136 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6140 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6143 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6147 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6150 sections of shared libraries.
6151 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6152 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6153 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6154 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6155 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6156 things you don't want them to.
6157 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6158 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6162 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6165 shared libraries. (#26414)
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6169 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6171 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6172 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6173 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6174 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6182 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6184 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6185 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6186 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6187 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6188 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6192 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6195 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6199 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6202 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6203 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6208 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6211 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6218 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6219 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6220 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6221 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6222 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6224 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6225 remove debian/files properly.
6226 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6227 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6228 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6229 * Removed bogus menu file.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6233 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6236 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6240 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6243 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6244 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6245 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6246 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6247 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6248 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6252 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6255 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6256 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6257 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6258 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6262 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6269 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6272 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6273 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6275 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6276 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6277 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6278 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6279 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6280 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6284 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6287 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6288 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6289 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6290 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6291 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6292 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6293 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6294 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6295 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6296 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6297 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6298 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6299 passed any switches.
6300 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6304 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6307 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6308 at all for a long while.
6309 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6310 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6311 large chunks in the process.
6312 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6313 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6314 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6319 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6322 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6324 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6329 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6332 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6333 that don't always have the same files in them.
6334 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6335 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6336 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6340 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6344 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6345 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6346 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6347 updating 27 man pages.
6348 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6349 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6350 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6351 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6352 programs act on. (#25247)
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6356 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6360 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6361 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6362 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6363 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6364 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6365 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6370 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6377 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6384 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6387 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6391 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6397 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6400 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6401 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6402 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6403 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6404 package by accident.
6405 * Is version 1.0 next?
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6409 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6412 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6413 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6417 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6420 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6421 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6422 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6423 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6424 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6426 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6431 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6434 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6435 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6439 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6442 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6446 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6449 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6450 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6455 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6461 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6464 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6465 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6470 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6476 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6479 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6480 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6481 past week. Thanks, guys!
6483 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6484 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6485 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6486 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6487 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6488 would do in the same situation.
6489 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6490 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6492 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6494 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6495 permissions changed.
6496 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6497 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6498 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6499 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6500 files are treated identically.
6501 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6502 * Minor man page fixes.
6503 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6504 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6505 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6509 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6512 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6513 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6514 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6515 use -X multiple times, too.
6516 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6517 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6521 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6524 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6525 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6529 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6532 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6536 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6539 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6540 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6541 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6542 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6543 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6544 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6545 shape if you're starting a new package.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6549 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6552 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6556 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6559 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6560 because of missing symlinks.
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6564 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6570 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6573 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6574 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6575 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6576 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6577 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6579 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6580 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6584 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6586 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6587 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6588 to be changed after the fact :-)
6589 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6593 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6595 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6596 no version string after the -V.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6600 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6602 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6603 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6608 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6611 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6615 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6618 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6619 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6620 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6621 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6622 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6623 I always welcome corrections!
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6627 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6633 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6636 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6637 * Documented this new switch.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6641 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6644 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6645 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6646 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6647 no packages use the old behavior.
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6651 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6654 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6655 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6659 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6662 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6666 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6668 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6672 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6675 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6679 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6682 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6683 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6684 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6688 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6694 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6697 into the source package by accident.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6701 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6704 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6705 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6706 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6707 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6708 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6709 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6714 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6718 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6719 inspired to implement some of it.
6720 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6724 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6727 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6731 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6734 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6735 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6739 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6741 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6742 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6743 have done.) (#17598)
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6747 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6753 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6762 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6769 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6770 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6774 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6777 argument processor in perl.
6778 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6779 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6780 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6781 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6785 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6788 type directories. (#16933)
6789 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6790 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6791 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6792 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6793 are supported. (#16935)
6794 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6802 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6806 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6810 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6811 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6812 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6813 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6814 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6815 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6819 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6822 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6823 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6825 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6826 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6827 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6828 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6829 a given package, or -i or -a.
6830 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6831 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6832 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6833 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6834 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6835 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6836 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6837 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6838 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6840 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6841 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6842 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6846 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6848 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6849 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6850 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6855 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6858 does not have a section.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6862 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6865 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6866 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6867 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6871 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * Fixed typo #16215.
6875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6877 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6879 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6880 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6881 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6882 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6883 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6884 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6889 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6892 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6893 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6894 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6899 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6901 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6905 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6914 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6915 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6916 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6917 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6918 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6919 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6923 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6925 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6929 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6931 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6932 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6936 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6938 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6939 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6940 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6941 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6945 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6947 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6948 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6952 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6958 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6960 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6961 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6965 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6967 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6968 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6972 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6974 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6978 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6980 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6981 postinst, postrm, etc.
6983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6985 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6987 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6991 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6993 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6994 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6995 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6996 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6997 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6998 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
7002 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
7005 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
7006 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
7010 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
7013 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
7015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
7017 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
7019 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
7020 installing package files into.
7021 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
7024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
7026 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
7028 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
7030 * Install examples/rules* executable.
7032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
7034 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
7036 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
7038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
7040 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
7042 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
7043 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
7045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7047 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7049 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7050 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7051 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7052 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7053 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7057 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7059 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7060 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7061 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7062 multiple binary packages.
7063 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7064 should rebuild them with this version.
7065 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7069 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7071 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7072 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7076 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7078 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7079 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7083 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7085 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7086 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7087 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7088 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7089 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7090 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7091 debian/README.debian.
7092 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7093 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7094 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7095 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7096 in a few situations.)
7098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7100 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7102 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7106 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7108 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7112 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7114 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7115 * Fixed several man pages.
7117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7119 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7121 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7122 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7123 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7127 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7129 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7130 is ready for general use.
7131 * Added man pages for all commands.
7132 * Multiple binary package support.
7133 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7134 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7135 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7137 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7138 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7139 auto-installed as parameters.
7140 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7142 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7145 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7146 the package build directory it is to act on.
7147 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7148 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7149 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7153 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7155 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7156 ready to replace debstd.
7158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400