1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation.
5 * Fix french misspelling
8 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
9 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
10 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
11 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
12 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
13 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
15 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
16 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
17 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
18 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
19 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
20 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
21 (Thanks, David Prévot)
22 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
26 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
32 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
36 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
38 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
42 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
44 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
45 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
46 introduced by the fix to #527990.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
50 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
53 changes are planned for that mode.
54 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
55 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
56 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
57 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
58 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
59 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
60 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
61 (genesis) still uses them.
62 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
63 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
64 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
65 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
66 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
67 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
68 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
69 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
70 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
71 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
72 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
73 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
74 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
75 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
76 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
77 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
78 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
79 commands. (See #570039)
80 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
82 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
87 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
91 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
92 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
93 in control file or debhelper config files.
94 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
98 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
101 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
102 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
106 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
109 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
113 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
116 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
117 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
121 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Updated French translation.
124 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
125 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
126 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
127 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
129 * Typo. Closes: #571968
130 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
131 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
132 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
133 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
134 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
135 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
136 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
137 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
138 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
140 * dh: Improve documentation.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
144 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
146 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
147 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
148 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
152 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
155 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
159 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
162 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
166 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
169 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
170 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
171 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
172 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
173 options that they do not support.
174 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
175 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
176 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
177 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
178 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
179 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
184 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
188 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
189 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
190 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
191 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
192 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
193 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
194 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
195 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
196 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
200 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
203 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
204 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
205 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
206 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
210 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Typo. Closes: #558654
213 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
214 installed. Closes: #558782
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
218 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
221 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
222 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
223 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
224 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
225 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
229 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
231 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
232 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
233 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
234 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
238 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
241 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
242 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
246 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
248 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
252 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
254 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
255 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
256 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
257 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
258 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
259 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
260 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
261 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
262 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
263 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
264 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
265 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
266 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
267 time soon.) Closes: #554509
268 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
270 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
271 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
272 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
273 document id. Closes: #555677
274 * Typo. Closes: #555659
275 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
276 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
277 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
278 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
280 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
281 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
282 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
287 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
290 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
291 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
292 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
293 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
294 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
295 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
296 translation (#494300 part 2)
299 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
301 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
302 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
303 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
304 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
305 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
309 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
312 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
313 (It was only run once due to logging.)
314 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
315 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
316 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
317 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
318 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
319 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
320 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
321 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
322 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
323 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
327 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
331 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
334 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
335 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
339 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
342 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
343 flag with arch all/any packages.
344 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
345 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
346 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
347 situation. Closes: #540794
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
351 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
355 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
356 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
357 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
358 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
359 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
362 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
363 the default. Closes: #538201
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
368 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
372 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
373 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
374 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
375 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
376 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
378 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
379 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
380 * Above Closes: #491117
381 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
386 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
392 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
393 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
394 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
398 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
401 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
402 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
403 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
404 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
405 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
410 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
413 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
414 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
418 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
420 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
424 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
426 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
427 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
429 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
430 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
431 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
435 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
437 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
438 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
442 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
448 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
450 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
451 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
452 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
457 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
459 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
463 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
466 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
467 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
468 created by using `python' first during build and install.
470 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
475 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
477 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
481 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
483 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
484 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
488 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
490 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
494 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
496 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
500 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
502 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
503 contributed by Modestas Vainius
504 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
505 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
506 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
507 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
508 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
509 that support it. Closes: #480577
510 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
511 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
512 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
514 - Adds support for cmake.
515 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
516 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
518 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
520 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
521 that use them. The options are:
522 --sourcedir, --destdir
523 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
524 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
525 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
526 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
527 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
531 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
537 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
540 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
541 default. Closes: #537140
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
545 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
548 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
549 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
553 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
556 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
560 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
563 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
567 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
570 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
572 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
573 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
574 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
578 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
581 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
582 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
583 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
587 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
590 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
591 warning or deprecation message.
592 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
593 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
594 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
595 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
596 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
597 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
598 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
599 Closes: #534639, #357434
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
603 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
609 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
612 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
613 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
614 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
615 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
617 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
618 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
619 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
623 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
629 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
636 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
639 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
643 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
647 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
648 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
650 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
651 file support. Closes: #494914
652 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
656 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
659 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
660 parameters. Closes: #527256
661 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
662 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
663 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
667 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
671 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
672 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
673 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
677 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
680 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
681 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
682 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
686 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
689 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
690 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
692 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
693 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
694 by triggers). Closes: #521181
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
698 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
702 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
706 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
709 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
710 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
711 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
712 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
717 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
723 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
726 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
727 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
728 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
729 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
730 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
732 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
733 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
734 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
735 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
736 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
737 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
741 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
744 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
745 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
746 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
747 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
748 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
750 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
754 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
756 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
760 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
762 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
763 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
764 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
765 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
766 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
767 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
768 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
769 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
770 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
771 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
772 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
776 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
778 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
779 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
781 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
782 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
783 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
784 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
786 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
787 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
791 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
793 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
794 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
795 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
796 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
797 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
798 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
799 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
801 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
802 that uses them. Affected options are:
803 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
804 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
805 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
806 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
807 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
808 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
809 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
810 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
811 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
812 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
813 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
814 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
818 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
825 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
831 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
833 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
834 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
836 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
837 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
838 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
839 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
840 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
842 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
844 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
845 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
846 rules (see bug #509756).
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
850 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
856 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
857 * Typo. Closes: #493062
858 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
859 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
863 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
866 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
867 empty files. Closes: #490937
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
871 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
877 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
887 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
888 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
889 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
890 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
895 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
897 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
898 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
899 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
900 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
907 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
908 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
909 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
910 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
911 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
922 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
924 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
925 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
926 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
927 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
928 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
929 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
930 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
931 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
932 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
933 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
937 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
940 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
941 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
942 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
943 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
945 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
946 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
947 breaking backwards compatibility.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
951 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
954 message in perl 5.10.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
958 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
964 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Convert copyright file to new format.
967 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
971 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
974 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
978 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
981 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
982 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
983 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
984 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
985 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
986 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
987 logging by dh_listpackages.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
991 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
994 run and there are no packages of that type.
995 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
996 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
997 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
998 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1000 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1001 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1008 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1009 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1016 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1017 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1019 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1020 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1021 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1022 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1023 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1024 planned but not yet implemented.)
1025 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1026 if the Makefile has such a target.
1027 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1028 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1029 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1030 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1031 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1032 but not yet implemented.)
1033 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1034 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1035 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1036 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1037 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1039 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1041 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1042 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1044 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1045 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1046 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1051 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1054 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1055 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1059 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1061 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1062 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1063 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1067 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1073 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1079 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1082 just those installed by the program.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1086 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1089 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1090 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1094 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1097 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1098 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1099 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1100 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1104 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1107 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1108 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1112 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1115 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1116 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1120 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1123 with policy. Closes: #461392
1124 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1125 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1126 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1127 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1128 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1132 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1135 Closes: #460340, #460351
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1139 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1142 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1143 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1144 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1145 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1149 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1152 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1153 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1154 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1155 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1156 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1157 package build directory won't work.
1158 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1159 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1160 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1161 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1162 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1163 mode. Closes: #459426
1164 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1172 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1176 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1180 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1181 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1182 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1183 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1184 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1185 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1192 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1193 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1194 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1195 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1202 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1203 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1204 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1205 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1206 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1210 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1213 debian/package.triggers files.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1217 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1220 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1224 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1227 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1228 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1229 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1230 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1235 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1238 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1245 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1246 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1248 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1253 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1257 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1258 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1259 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1263 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1270 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1277 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1280 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1282 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1283 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1284 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1286 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1287 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1288 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1295 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1296 * Update urls to web page.
1297 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1298 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1299 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1300 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1304 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1307 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1308 - typo in alternatives call
1309 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1311 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1312 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1316 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1319 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1324 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1339 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1341 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1342 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1343 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1344 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1345 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1346 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1347 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1348 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1349 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1350 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1351 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1355 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1358 package install. Closes: #415717
1359 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1360 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1361 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1362 script and then remove the python files.
1363 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1364 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1365 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1366 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1367 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1368 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1369 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1370 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1371 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1372 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1373 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1374 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1375 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Correct typo in french translation
1385 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1386 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1388 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1390 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1391 Closes: #406921, #381940
1392 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1394 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1395 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1396 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1397 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1398 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1399 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1400 specified). Closes: #381851
1401 * Misc minor changes.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1405 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1412 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1413 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1417 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1423 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1424 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1427 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1428 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1430 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1431 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1432 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1433 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1437 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1440 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1443 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1447 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1453 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1459 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1460 a difficult situation.
1461 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1462 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1463 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1464 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1465 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1466 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1467 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1468 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1469 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1470 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Non-maintainer upload.
1477 * Update of dh_python
1478 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1479 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1481 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1482 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1483 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1484 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1485 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1487 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1489 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Non-maintainer upload.
1492 * Update of dh_python
1493 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1494 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1495 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1496 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1497 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1498 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1499 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1500 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1501 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1502 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1504 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1505 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1506 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1507 the not too-distant future).
1508 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1509 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1510 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1511 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1512 thus made the build fail.
1514 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1516 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Non-maintainer upload.
1519 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1521 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1523 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1526 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1527 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1528 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1529 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1530 package. Closes: #301424
1531 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1532 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1533 fonts). Closes: #372686
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1537 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1543 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1544 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1545 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1546 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1547 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1548 above, but already depends on that.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1552 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1555 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1556 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1557 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1558 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1559 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1563 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1575 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1576 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1580 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1583 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1591 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1592 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1593 new version (0.24.1).
1594 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1595 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1598 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1599 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1600 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1601 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1602 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1603 new directory on their own.
1604 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1605 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1609 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1612 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1613 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1614 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1615 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1619 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1622 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1623 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1624 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1625 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1626 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1630 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1640 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1641 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1645 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1646 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1652 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1653 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1655 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1656 ignored. Closes: #337664
1658 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1663 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1674 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1675 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1676 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1677 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1678 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1679 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1680 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1687 version. Closes: #350607
1688 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1689 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1690 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1691 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1698 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1699 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1700 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1704 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1711 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1717 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1720 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1724 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1727 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1728 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1729 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1730 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1731 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1732 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1739 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1740 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1745 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1748 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1752 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1755 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1762 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1763 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1764 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1765 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1766 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1767 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1771 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1775 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1776 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1777 link. Closes: #346405
1778 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1780 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1781 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1782 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1783 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1784 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1785 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1786 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1790 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1797 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1803 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1806 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1813 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1818 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1822 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1823 installed. Closes: #342033
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1830 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1831 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1832 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1853 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1854 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1855 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1862 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1867 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1880 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1883 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1884 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1885 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1886 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1887 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1888 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1889 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1891 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1895 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1898 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1899 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1906 in standard man dirs.
1907 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1920 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1939 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1942 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1943 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1950 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1951 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1952 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1954 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1956 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1971 mode. Closes: #324161
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1978 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1979 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1980 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1981 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1989 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1990 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1991 is necesary for sanity.
1992 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1993 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2000 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2001 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2008 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2021 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2022 released, so use at your own risk.
2023 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2024 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2026 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2027 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2028 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2029 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2030 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2031 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2032 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2033 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2034 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2035 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2036 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2037 including twice per config file line now..
2038 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2039 and simplfy the rules file.
2040 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2041 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2042 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2044 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2045 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2052 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2059 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2066 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2073 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2074 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2075 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2076 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2077 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2078 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2085 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2086 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2087 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2092 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2095 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2096 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2104 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2105 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2106 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2114 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2115 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2116 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2120 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2136 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2137 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2138 unknown. Closes: #282924
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2142 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Spanish man page updates.
2152 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2166 * dh_desktop: reindent
2167 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2168 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2180 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2186 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2190 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2193 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2194 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2198 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2220 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2227 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2228 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2229 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2230 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2231 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2232 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2234 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2235 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2236 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2237 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2238 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2239 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2240 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2241 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2242 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2243 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2244 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2245 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2246 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2247 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2248 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2249 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2263 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2267 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2270 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2277 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2284 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2294 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2300 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2309 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2310 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2311 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2318 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2325 but occasionally right and necessary.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2332 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2333 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2334 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2335 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2336 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2340 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2343 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2345 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2346 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2347 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2348 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2349 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2350 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2351 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2352 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2353 postinst scripts for udebs.
2354 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2361 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2363 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2364 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2368 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2388 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2391 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2395 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2398 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2402 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2405 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2408 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2409 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2413 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2422 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2426 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2429 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2430 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2431 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2433 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2435 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2436 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2437 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2444 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2452 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2453 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2454 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2459 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2474 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2475 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2476 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2477 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2478 associated -dbg packages.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2485 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2492 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2499 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2506 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2514 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2521 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2529 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2537 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2538 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2539 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2540 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2541 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2542 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2543 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2544 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2545 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2546 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2553 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2561 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2562 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2569 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2570 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2578 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2585 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2592 out section number. Closes: #204731
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2618 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2619 removal. Closes: #204286
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2626 renaming. Closes: #203548
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2633 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2634 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2650 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2656 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2659 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2660 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2661 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2668 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2669 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2689 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2697 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2704 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2706 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2707 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2714 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2722 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2734 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2738 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2741 it break hard links (see #188663).
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2748 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2762 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2763 debconf-mergetemplates
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2767 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2770 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2777 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2784 * Update debhelper(1).
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2791 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2792 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2793 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2794 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2795 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2802 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2803 the shell. Closes: #178524
2804 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2808 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2811 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2815 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2818 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2822 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2825 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2826 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2827 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2828 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2833 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2836 files from installation.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2840 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2843 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2844 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2848 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2851 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2858 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2862 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2868 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2874 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2878 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2879 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2881 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2888 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2889 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2890 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2891 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2895 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2898 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2902 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2905 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2906 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2910 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2914 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2929 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2930 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2931 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2939 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2940 practice. Closes: #163303
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2960 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2962 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2963 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2964 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2965 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2966 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2973 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2994 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3027 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3028 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3029 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3030 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3051 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3052 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3059 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3060 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3061 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3062 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3063 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3070 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3072 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3080 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3087 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3088 right thing. Closes: #150644
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Stupid, evil typo.
3095 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3109 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3110 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3124 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3131 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3132 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3140 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3144 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3153 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3154 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3164 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Removing perl warning message.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3173 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3174 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3175 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3176 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3177 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3178 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3179 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3180 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3190 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3197 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3200 debconf-mergetemplate.
3201 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3202 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3206 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3209 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3210 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3211 dh_install, which ...
3212 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3213 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3214 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3215 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3216 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3217 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3218 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3219 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3220 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3221 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3222 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3223 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3224 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3225 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3226 other minor changes.
3227 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3228 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3229 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3230 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3231 course there's -X ..)
3232 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3233 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3234 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3236 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3237 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3238 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3239 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3240 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3245 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3251 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3254 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3258 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3264 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3276 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3282 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3285 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3286 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3287 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3288 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3290 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3291 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3295 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3301 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3304 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3308 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3311 upset. Closes: #131322
3313 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3315 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3318 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3319 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3320 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3321 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3322 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3323 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3324 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3325 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3326 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3327 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3328 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3329 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3330 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3331 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3332 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3334 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3338 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3341 - Better indenting of generated code.
3342 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3346 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3350 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3351 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3352 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3353 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3354 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3355 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3356 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3360 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3363 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3367 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3370 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3371 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3372 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3373 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3374 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3375 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3376 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3377 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3378 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3379 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3380 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3381 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3382 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3383 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3384 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3395 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3398 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3399 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3403 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3406 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3407 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3411 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3417 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3420 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3421 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3422 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3423 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3424 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3429 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3435 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3438 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3442 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3445 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3450 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3459 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3463 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3469 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3473 Also some indentation fixes.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3477 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3480 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3481 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3482 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3483 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3484 Closes: #106514, #85520
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3494 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3500 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3506 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3521 change it in debhelper v4..
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3525 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3534 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3538 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3541 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3545 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3551 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3554 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3555 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3556 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3557 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3558 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3559 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3560 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3561 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3562 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3563 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3564 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3565 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3572 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3586 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3587 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3588 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3589 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3590 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3591 program those options go to. So, for example,
3592 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3593 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3594 something complex. Closes: #89311
3595 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3602 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3603 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3604 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3608 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3611 through loop. Closes: #98598
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3615 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Missing semi-colon.
3618 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3619 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3623 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3626 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3627 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3628 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3635 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3636 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3640 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3643 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3647 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3650 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3651 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3655 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3658 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3659 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3660 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3667 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3668 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3669 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3673 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3676 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3680 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3686 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3692 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3698 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3704 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3707 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3711 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3714 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3715 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3716 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3717 followed. Closes: #85483
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3721 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3723 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3724 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3725 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3729 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3732 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3733 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3734 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3735 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3736 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3737 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3738 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3739 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3740 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3741 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3742 Closes: #88464, #77743
3743 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3744 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3745 us to deal with that gracefully.
3746 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3748 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3749 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3750 a while, Closes: #51225
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3754 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3760 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3763 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3767 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3771 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3776 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3779 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3780 don't make packlist files.
3781 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3782 debhelper coding standards.
3783 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3784 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3788 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3791 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3795 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3798 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3799 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3800 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3801 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3802 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3803 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3804 but is mildly deprecated.
3805 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3806 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3807 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3808 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3809 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3810 switching to statoverrides..
3811 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3812 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3813 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3814 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3815 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3816 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3818 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3819 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3820 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3821 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3822 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3823 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3824 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3825 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3826 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3828 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3829 variable names, pod man pages).
3830 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3831 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3832 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3833 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3834 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3835 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3836 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3856 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3862 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3863 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3864 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3870 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3871 they were previously ignored.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3877 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3878 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3884 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3885 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3886 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3892 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3896 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3898 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3899 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3905 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3906 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3907 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3908 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3909 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3910 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3911 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3912 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3913 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3914 it is an obsolete program.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3918 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3920 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3924 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3928 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3934 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3938 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3940 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * typo: Closes, #78567
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3971 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3972 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3973 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3974 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3975 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3982 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3990 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3991 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3992 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3993 backwards-compatibility.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4000 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4001 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4002 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4003 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4004 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4005 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4007 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4008 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4009 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4011 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4013 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4014 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4015 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4016 should now be raised to severity important..
4017 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4018 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4025 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4058 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4059 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4060 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4061 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4071 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4074 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4075 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4076 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4077 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4078 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4079 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4087 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4100 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4108 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4109 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4110 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4111 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4119 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4122 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4125 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4126 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4129 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4131 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4132 the TODO entry about it.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4146 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4147 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4154 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4155 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4156 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4157 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4177 (this appears to be logal).
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4184 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4185 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4186 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4187 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4200 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4201 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4202 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4203 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4216 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4230 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4231 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4232 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4253 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4254 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4255 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4256 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4257 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4258 notice until v2 is complete.
4259 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4260 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4261 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4262 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4263 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4264 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4266 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4267 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4268 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4269 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4289 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4303 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4304 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4305 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4306 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4314 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4315 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4316 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4324 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4325 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4332 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4339 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4353 depend on the build and install targets.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4360 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4386 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4387 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4388 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4389 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4390 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4391 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4393 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4394 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4395 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4396 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4397 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4398 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4399 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4403 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4409 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4418 right place. Closes: #55065
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4432 * Copyright date updates.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4436 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4439 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4450 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4463 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4478 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4479 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4480 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4481 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4482 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4483 bits until all files have been registered.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installmanpages:
4490 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4491 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4492 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4493 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4494 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4495 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4496 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4497 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4498 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4499 otherwise change the result at all.
4501 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4502 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4503 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4504 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4505 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4519 act on files that don't exist.
4520 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4521 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4522 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4524 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4525 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4526 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4527 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4531 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4537 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4543 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4546 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4553 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4555 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4556 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4557 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4561 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4564 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4565 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4566 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4567 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4568 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4569 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4570 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4572 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4574 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4578 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4585 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4600 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4619 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4620 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4621 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4622 I made some changes, though:
4623 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4624 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4625 that is a clear violation of policy.
4626 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4627 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4628 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4629 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4630 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4631 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4632 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4633 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4634 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4636 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4649 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4656 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4657 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4662 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4678 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4679 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4680 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4681 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4682 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4683 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4684 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4688 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4698 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4699 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4712 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4719 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4720 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4726 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4735 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4742 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4743 for the dependancies to be generated.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4750 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4757 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4758 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4759 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4767 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4768 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4787 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4800 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4801 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4802 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4803 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4804 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4805 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4806 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4807 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4808 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4809 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4810 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4811 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4818 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4819 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4821 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4822 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4823 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4824 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4825 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4826 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4828 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4829 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4836 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4840 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4850 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4858 for building debhelper.
4859 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4863 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4873 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4880 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4881 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4882 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4883 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4884 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4885 it's always available.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4892 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4893 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4894 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4901 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4902 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4915 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4928 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4929 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4930 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4937 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4945 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4946 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4948 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4949 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4968 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4975 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4976 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4978 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4985 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4986 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4987 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4991 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4994 things if CDPATH is set.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4998 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5007 seems to make sense for the transition.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5011 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5014 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5019 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5022 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5023 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5027 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5030 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5037 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5038 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5039 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5040 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5050 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5053 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5054 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5055 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5056 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5057 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5058 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5059 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5060 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5061 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5062 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5070 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5071 * README: mention doc/v2
5072 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5073 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5079 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5080 be using this script RSN.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5087 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5088 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5089 more than 1 init script.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5093 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5096 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5100 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Changed perl version detection.
5103 * Changed call to find.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5110 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5112 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Really include dh_installpam.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5126 * Wrote man page for same.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5133 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5134 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5146 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5149 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5150 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5151 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5152 x bit was being set!
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5159 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5160 well. (Closes: 38900)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5167 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5168 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5194 help from Julian Gilbey.
5195 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5196 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5197 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5198 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5199 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5200 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5201 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5234 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5241 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5248 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5258 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5261 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5271 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5280 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5281 may be deleted. (#35845)
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Various man page enhancements.
5288 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5296 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5297 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5304 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5305 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5306 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5308 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5309 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5320 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * Another very minor typo fix.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * Very minor typo fix.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5335 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5336 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5346 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5349 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5350 variables properly (#34850).
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5354 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5360 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5363 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5364 (automatically generated by build process).
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5370 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5377 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5378 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5380 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5387 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * README: minor typo fix.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5400 leave it at that. :-)
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5419 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5420 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5421 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5428 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5432 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5435 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5442 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5443 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5444 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5445 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5452 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5453 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5454 Craig Small for spotting this.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5461 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5462 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5475 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5481 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5482 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5483 working on the last version of debhelper.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5490 being made. (#23255)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5503 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5510 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5511 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5512 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5513 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5520 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5521 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5522 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5523 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5525 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5526 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5528 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5548 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5549 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5550 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5551 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5552 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5553 suidregister actually supports it.
5554 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5555 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5559 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5566 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5569 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5570 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5571 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5572 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5573 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5574 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5575 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5579 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5581 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5582 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5589 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5590 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5591 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5592 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5599 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5601 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5602 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5603 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5604 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5605 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5606 effect, either. (#30118)
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5610 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5619 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5620 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5630 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5632 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5633 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5634 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5635 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5636 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5643 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5644 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5657 packages, painlessly.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * The perl conversion is complete.
5683 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5685 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5686 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5687 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5692 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5695 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5696 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5697 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5701 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5704 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5706 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5708 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5709 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5716 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5717 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5721 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5730 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5731 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5732 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5733 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5734 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5741 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5742 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5743 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5744 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5751 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5755 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5758 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5759 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5760 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5761 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5762 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5763 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5764 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5765 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5769 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5775 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5778 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5779 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5780 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5785 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5788 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5792 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5795 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5802 sections of shared libraries.
5803 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5804 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5805 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5806 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5807 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5808 things you don't want them to.
5809 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5810 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5817 shared libraries. (#26414)
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5821 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5823 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5824 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5825 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5826 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5830 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5834 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5836 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5837 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5838 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5839 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5840 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5847 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5851 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5854 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5855 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5860 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5863 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5867 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5870 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5871 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5872 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5873 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5874 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5876 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5877 remove debian/files properly.
5878 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5879 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5880 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5881 * Removed bogus menu file.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5885 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5888 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5892 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5895 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5896 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5897 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5898 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5899 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5900 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5907 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5908 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5909 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5910 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5924 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5925 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5927 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5928 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5929 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5930 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5931 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5932 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5936 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5939 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5940 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5941 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5942 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5943 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5944 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5945 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5946 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5947 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5948 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5949 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5950 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5951 passed any switches.
5952 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5959 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5960 at all for a long while.
5961 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5962 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5963 large chunks in the process.
5964 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5965 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5966 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5971 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5974 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5976 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5981 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5984 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5985 that don't always have the same files in them.
5986 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5987 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5988 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5992 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5996 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5997 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5998 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5999 updating 27 man pages.
6000 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6001 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6002 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6003 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6004 programs act on. (#25247)
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6008 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6012 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6013 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6014 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6015 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6016 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6017 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6022 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6029 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6036 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6039 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6043 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6049 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6052 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6053 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6054 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6055 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6056 package by accident.
6057 * Is version 1.0 next?
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6061 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6064 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6065 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6069 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6072 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6073 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6074 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6075 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6076 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6078 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6083 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6086 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6087 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6091 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6094 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6098 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6101 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6102 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6107 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6116 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6117 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6122 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6128 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6131 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6132 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6133 past week. Thanks, guys!
6135 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6136 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6137 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6138 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6139 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6140 would do in the same situation.
6141 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6142 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6144 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6146 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6147 permissions changed.
6148 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6149 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6150 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6151 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6152 files are treated identically.
6153 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6154 * Minor man page fixes.
6155 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6156 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6157 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6161 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6164 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6165 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6166 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6167 use -X multiple times, too.
6168 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6169 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6173 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6176 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6177 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6181 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6184 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6188 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6191 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6192 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6193 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6194 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6195 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6196 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6197 shape if you're starting a new package.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6201 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6204 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6208 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6211 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6212 because of missing symlinks.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6222 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6225 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6226 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6227 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6228 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6229 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6231 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6232 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6236 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6238 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6239 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6240 to be changed after the fact :-)
6241 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6245 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6247 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6248 no version string after the -V.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6252 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6254 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6255 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6260 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6263 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6270 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6271 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6272 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6273 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6274 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6275 I always welcome corrections!
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6285 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6288 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6289 * Documented this new switch.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6293 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6296 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6297 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6298 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6299 no packages use the old behavior.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6306 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6307 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6311 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6314 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6318 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6327 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6331 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6334 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6335 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6336 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6346 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6349 into the source package by accident.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6353 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6356 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6357 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6358 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6359 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6360 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6361 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6366 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6370 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6371 inspired to implement some of it.
6372 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6379 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6383 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6386 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6387 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6391 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6394 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6395 have done.) (#17598)
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6399 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6405 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6414 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6418 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6421 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6422 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6426 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6429 argument processor in perl.
6430 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6431 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6432 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6433 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6440 type directories. (#16933)
6441 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6442 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6443 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6444 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6445 are supported. (#16935)
6446 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6451 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6454 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6462 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6463 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6464 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6465 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6466 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6467 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6471 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6474 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6475 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6477 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6478 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6479 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6480 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6481 a given package, or -i or -a.
6482 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6483 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6484 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6485 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6486 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6487 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6488 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6489 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6490 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6492 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6493 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6494 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6498 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6501 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6502 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6510 does not have a section.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6517 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6518 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6519 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * Fixed typo #16215.
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6532 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6533 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6534 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6535 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6536 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6544 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6545 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6546 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6551 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6566 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6567 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6568 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6569 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6570 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6571 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6584 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6591 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6592 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6593 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6597 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6600 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6604 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6613 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6617 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6620 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6630 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6633 postinst, postrm, etc.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6637 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6639 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6646 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6647 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6648 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6649 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6650 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6657 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6658 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6662 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6665 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6672 installing package files into.
6673 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6678 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6682 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6686 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6692 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6695 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6699 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6702 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6703 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6704 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6705 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6709 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6711 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6712 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6713 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6714 multiple binary packages.
6715 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6716 should rebuild them with this version.
6717 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6721 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6724 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6728 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6730 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6731 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6735 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6738 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6739 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6740 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6741 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6742 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6743 debian/README.debian.
6744 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6745 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6746 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6747 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6748 in a few situations.)
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6752 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6758 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6764 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6767 * Fixed several man pages.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6771 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6774 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6775 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6779 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6782 is ready for general use.
6783 * Added man pages for all commands.
6784 * Multiple binary package support.
6785 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6786 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6787 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6789 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6790 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6791 auto-installed as parameters.
6792 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6794 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6797 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6798 the package build directory it is to act on.
6799 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6800 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6801 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6805 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6807 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6808 ready to replace debstd.
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400