1 debhelper (7.4.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
4 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
5 some buildds build with -j2 by default.
6 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
7 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
8 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:32:50 -0500
12 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
14 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
15 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
16 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
17 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
21 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
24 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
25 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
29 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
31 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
35 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
37 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
38 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
39 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
40 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
41 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
42 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
43 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
44 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
45 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
46 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
47 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
48 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
49 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
50 time soon.) Closes: #554509
51 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
53 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
54 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
55 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
56 document id. Closes: #555677
57 * Typo. Closes: #555659
58 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
59 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
60 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
61 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
63 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
64 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
65 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
70 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
73 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
74 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
75 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
76 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
77 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
78 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
79 translation (#494300 part 2)
82 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
84 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
85 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
86 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
87 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
88 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
92 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
95 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
96 (It was only run once due to logging.)
97 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
98 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
99 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
100 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
101 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
102 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
103 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
104 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
105 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
106 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
110 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
114 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
117 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
118 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
122 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
125 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
126 flag with arch all/any packages.
127 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
128 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
129 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
130 situation. Closes: #540794
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
134 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
138 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
139 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
140 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
141 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
142 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
145 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
146 the default. Closes: #538201
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
151 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
155 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
156 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
157 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
158 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
159 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
161 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
162 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
163 * Above Closes: #491117
164 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
169 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
175 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
176 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
177 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
181 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
184 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
185 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
186 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
187 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
188 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
193 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
196 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
197 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
201 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
203 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
207 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
209 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
210 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
212 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
213 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
214 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
218 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
220 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
221 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
225 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
231 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
233 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
234 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
235 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
240 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
242 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
246 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
249 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
250 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
251 created by using `python' first during build and install.
253 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
258 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
260 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
264 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
266 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
267 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
271 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
273 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
277 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
279 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
283 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
285 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
286 contributed by Modestas Vainius
287 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
288 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
289 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
290 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
291 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
292 that support it. Closes: #480577
293 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
294 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
295 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
297 - Adds support for cmake.
298 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
299 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
301 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
303 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
304 that use them. The options are:
305 --sourcedir, --destdir
306 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
307 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
308 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
309 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
310 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
314 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
320 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
323 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
324 default. Closes: #537140
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
328 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
331 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
332 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
336 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
339 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
343 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
346 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
350 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
353 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
355 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
356 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
357 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
361 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
364 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
365 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
366 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
370 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
373 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
374 warning or deprecation message.
375 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
376 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
377 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
378 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
379 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
380 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
381 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
382 Closes: #534639, #357434
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
392 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
395 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
396 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
397 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
398 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
400 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
401 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
402 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
406 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
412 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
419 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
422 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
426 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
430 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
431 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
433 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
434 file support. Closes: #494914
435 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
439 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
442 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
443 parameters. Closes: #527256
444 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
445 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
446 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
450 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
454 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
455 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
456 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
460 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
463 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
464 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
465 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
469 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
472 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
473 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
475 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
476 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
477 by triggers). Closes: #521181
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
481 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
485 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
489 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
492 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
493 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
494 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
495 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
506 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
509 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
510 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
511 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
512 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
513 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
515 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
516 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
517 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
518 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
519 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
520 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
524 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
527 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
528 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
529 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
530 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
531 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
533 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
537 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
539 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
543 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
545 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
546 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
547 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
548 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
549 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
550 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
551 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
552 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
553 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
554 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
555 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
559 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
561 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
562 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
564 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
565 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
566 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
567 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
569 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
570 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
574 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
576 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
577 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
578 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
579 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
580 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
581 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
582 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
584 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
585 that uses them. Affected options are:
586 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
587 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
588 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
589 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
590 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
591 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
592 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
593 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
594 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
595 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
596 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
597 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
601 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
608 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
614 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
616 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
617 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
619 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
620 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
621 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
622 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
623 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
625 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
627 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
628 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
629 rules (see bug #509756).
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
633 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
639 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
640 * Typo. Closes: #493062
641 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
642 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
646 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
649 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
650 empty files. Closes: #490937
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
654 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
660 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
667 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
670 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
671 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
672 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
673 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
678 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
680 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
681 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
682 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
683 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
687 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
690 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
691 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
692 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
693 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
694 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
698 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
705 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
707 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
708 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
709 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
710 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
711 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
712 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
713 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
714 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
715 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
716 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
720 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
723 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
724 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
725 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
726 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
728 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
729 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
730 breaking backwards compatibility.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
734 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
737 message in perl 5.10.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
741 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
747 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Convert copyright file to new format.
750 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
754 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
757 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
761 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
764 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
765 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
766 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
767 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
768 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
769 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
770 logging by dh_listpackages.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
774 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
777 run and there are no packages of that type.
778 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
779 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
780 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
781 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
783 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
784 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
788 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
790 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
791 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
792 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
796 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
799 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
800 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
802 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
803 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
804 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
805 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
806 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
807 planned but not yet implemented.)
808 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
809 if the Makefile has such a target.
810 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
811 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
812 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
813 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
814 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
815 but not yet implemented.)
816 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
817 recommended default, especially when using dh.
818 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
819 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
820 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
822 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
824 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
825 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
827 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
828 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
829 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
834 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
837 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
838 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
842 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
844 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
845 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
846 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
850 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
856 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
862 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
865 just those installed by the program.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
869 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
872 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
873 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
877 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
880 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
881 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
882 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
883 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
887 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
890 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
891 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
895 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
898 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
899 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
903 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
906 with policy. Closes: #461392
907 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
908 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
909 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
910 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
911 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
915 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
918 Closes: #460340, #460351
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
922 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
925 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
926 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
927 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
928 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
932 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
935 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
936 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
937 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
938 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
939 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
940 package build directory won't work.
941 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
942 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
943 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
944 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
945 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
946 mode. Closes: #459426
947 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
952 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
955 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
959 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
963 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
964 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
965 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
966 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
967 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
968 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
972 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
975 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
976 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
977 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
978 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
982 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
985 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
986 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
987 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
988 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
989 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
993 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
996 debian/package.triggers files.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1000 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1003 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1007 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1010 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1011 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1012 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1013 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1018 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1021 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1025 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1028 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1029 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1031 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1036 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1040 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1041 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1042 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1046 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1053 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1063 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1065 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1066 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1067 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1069 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1070 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1071 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1075 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1078 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1079 * Update urls to web page.
1080 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1081 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1082 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1083 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1090 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1091 - typo in alternatives call
1092 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1094 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1095 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1099 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1102 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1107 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1113 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1119 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1122 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1124 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1125 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1126 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1127 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1128 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1129 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1130 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1131 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1132 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1133 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1134 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1138 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1141 package install. Closes: #415717
1142 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1143 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1144 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1145 script and then remove the python files.
1146 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1147 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1148 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1149 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1150 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1151 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1152 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1153 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1154 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1155 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1156 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1157 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1158 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1162 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Correct typo in french translation
1168 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1169 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1171 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1173 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1174 Closes: #406921, #381940
1175 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1177 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1178 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1179 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1180 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1181 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1182 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1183 specified). Closes: #381851
1184 * Misc minor changes.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1195 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1196 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1200 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1206 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1207 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1210 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1211 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1213 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1214 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1215 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1216 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1220 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1223 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1226 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1230 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1242 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1243 a difficult situation.
1244 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1245 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1246 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1247 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1248 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1249 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1250 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1251 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1252 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1253 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Non-maintainer upload.
1260 * Update of dh_python
1261 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1262 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1264 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1265 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1266 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1267 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1268 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1270 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1272 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Non-maintainer upload.
1275 * Update of dh_python
1276 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1277 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1278 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1279 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1280 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1281 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1282 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1283 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1284 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1285 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1287 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1288 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1289 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1290 the not too-distant future).
1291 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1292 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1293 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1294 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1295 thus made the build fail.
1297 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1299 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Non-maintainer upload.
1302 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1304 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1306 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1309 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1310 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1311 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1312 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1313 package. Closes: #301424
1314 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1315 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1316 fonts). Closes: #372686
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1320 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1326 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1327 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1328 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1329 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1330 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1331 above, but already depends on that.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1335 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1338 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1339 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1340 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1341 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1342 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1358 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1359 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1363 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1366 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1370 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1374 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1375 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1376 new version (0.24.1).
1377 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1378 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1381 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1382 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1383 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1384 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1385 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1386 new directory on their own.
1387 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1388 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1392 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1395 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1396 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1397 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1398 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1402 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1405 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1406 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1407 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1408 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1409 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1413 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1419 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1423 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1424 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1428 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1429 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1435 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1436 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1438 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1439 ignored. Closes: #337664
1441 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1446 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1452 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1457 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1458 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1459 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1460 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1461 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1462 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1463 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1467 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1470 version. Closes: #350607
1471 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1472 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1473 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1474 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1478 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1481 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1482 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1483 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1487 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1503 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1507 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1510 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1511 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1512 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1513 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1514 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1515 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1519 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1522 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1523 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1528 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1531 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1535 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1538 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1545 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1546 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1547 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1548 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1549 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1550 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1554 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1558 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1559 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1560 link. Closes: #346405
1561 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1563 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1564 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1565 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1566 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1567 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1568 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1569 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1573 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1580 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1586 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1589 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1596 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1605 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1606 installed. Closes: #342033
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1610 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1613 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1614 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1615 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1626 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1632 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1636 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1637 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1638 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1642 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1645 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1657 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1663 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1666 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1667 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1668 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1669 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1670 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1671 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1672 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1674 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1681 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1682 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1689 in standard man dirs.
1690 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1700 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1703 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1722 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1725 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1726 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1733 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1734 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1735 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1737 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1739 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1754 mode. Closes: #324161
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1761 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1762 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1763 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1764 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1772 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1773 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1774 is necesary for sanity.
1775 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1776 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1783 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1784 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1791 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1804 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1805 released, so use at your own risk.
1806 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1807 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1809 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1810 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1811 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1812 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1813 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1814 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1815 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1816 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1817 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1818 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1819 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1820 including twice per config file line now..
1821 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1822 and simplfy the rules file.
1823 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1824 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1825 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1827 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1828 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1835 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1842 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1849 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1856 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1857 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1858 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1859 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1860 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1861 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1868 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1869 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1870 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1878 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1879 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1887 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1888 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1889 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1897 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1898 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1899 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1903 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1919 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1920 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1921 unknown. Closes: #282924
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1932 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Spanish man page updates.
1935 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1949 * dh_desktop: reindent
1950 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1951 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1963 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1969 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1973 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1976 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1977 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1981 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2003 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2010 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2011 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2012 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2013 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2014 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2015 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2017 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2018 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2019 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2020 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2021 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2022 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2023 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2024 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2025 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2026 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2027 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2028 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2029 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2030 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2031 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2032 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2046 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2050 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2053 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2060 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2067 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2077 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2092 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2093 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2094 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2101 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2105 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2108 but occasionally right and necessary.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2115 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2116 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2117 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2118 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2119 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2126 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2128 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2129 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2130 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2131 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2132 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2133 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2134 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2135 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2136 postinst scripts for udebs.
2137 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2144 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2146 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2147 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2174 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2181 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2188 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2191 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2192 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2196 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2202 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2205 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2212 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2213 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2214 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2216 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2218 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2219 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2220 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2224 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2227 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2235 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2236 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2237 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2242 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2257 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2258 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2259 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2260 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2261 associated -dbg packages.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2268 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2275 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2282 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2289 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2297 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2304 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2312 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2320 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2321 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2322 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2323 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2324 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2325 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2326 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2327 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2328 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2329 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2336 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2344 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2345 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2352 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2353 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2361 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2368 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2375 out section number. Closes: #204731
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2401 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2402 removal. Closes: #204286
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2409 renaming. Closes: #203548
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2416 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2417 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2433 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2439 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2442 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2443 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2444 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2451 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2452 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2472 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2480 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2487 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2489 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2490 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2497 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2505 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2517 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2524 it break hard links (see #188663).
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2531 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2541 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2545 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2546 debconf-mergetemplates
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2550 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2553 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2560 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2567 * Update debhelper(1).
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2574 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2575 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2576 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2577 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2578 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2582 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2585 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2586 the shell. Closes: #178524
2587 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2591 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2594 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2598 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2601 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2605 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2608 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2609 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2610 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2611 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2616 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2619 files from installation.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2626 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2627 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2634 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2641 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2651 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2657 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2661 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2662 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2664 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2668 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2671 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2672 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2673 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2674 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2678 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2681 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2685 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2688 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2689 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2693 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2697 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2712 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2713 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2714 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2722 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2723 practice. Closes: #163303
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2743 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2745 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2746 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2747 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2748 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2749 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2756 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2774 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2777 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2788 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2794 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2810 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2811 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2812 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2813 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2818 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2831 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2834 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2835 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2842 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2843 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2844 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2845 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2846 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2853 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2855 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2863 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2870 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2871 right thing. Closes: #150644
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Stupid, evil typo.
2878 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2892 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2893 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2907 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2914 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2915 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2923 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2936 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2937 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Removing perl warning message.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2956 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2957 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2958 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2959 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2960 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2961 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2962 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2963 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2983 debconf-mergetemplate.
2984 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2985 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2992 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2993 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2994 dh_install, which ...
2995 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2996 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2997 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2998 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2999 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3000 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3001 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3002 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3003 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3004 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3005 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3006 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3007 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3008 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3009 other minor changes.
3010 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3011 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3012 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3013 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3014 course there's -X ..)
3015 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3016 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3017 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3019 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3020 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3021 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3022 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3023 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3028 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3034 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3037 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3041 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3047 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3053 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3059 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3065 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3068 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3069 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3070 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3071 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3073 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3074 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3078 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3084 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3087 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3091 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3094 upset. Closes: #131322
3096 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3098 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3101 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3102 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3103 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3104 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3105 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3106 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3107 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3108 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3109 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3110 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3111 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3112 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3113 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3114 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3115 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3117 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3121 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3124 - Better indenting of generated code.
3125 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3129 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3133 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3134 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3135 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3136 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3137 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3138 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3139 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3143 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3146 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3150 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3153 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3154 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3155 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3156 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3157 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3158 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3159 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3160 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3161 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3162 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3163 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3164 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3165 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3166 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3167 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3172 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3178 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3181 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3182 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3186 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3189 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3190 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3194 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3200 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3203 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3204 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3205 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3206 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3207 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3212 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3221 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3225 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3228 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3233 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3239 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3242 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3246 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3252 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3256 Also some indentation fixes.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3260 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3263 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3264 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3265 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3266 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3267 Closes: #106514, #85520
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3271 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3277 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3283 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3289 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3295 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3301 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3304 change it in debhelper v4..
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3308 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3314 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3317 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3324 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3334 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3337 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3338 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3339 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3340 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3341 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3342 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3343 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3344 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3345 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3346 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3347 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3348 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3352 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3355 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3359 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3366 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3369 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3370 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3371 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3372 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3373 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3374 program those options go to. So, for example,
3375 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3376 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3377 something complex. Closes: #89311
3378 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3382 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3385 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3386 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3387 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3391 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3394 through loop. Closes: #98598
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3398 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Missing semi-colon.
3401 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3402 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3406 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3409 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3410 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3411 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3415 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3418 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3419 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3423 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3426 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3430 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3433 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3434 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3441 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3442 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3443 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3447 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3450 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3451 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3452 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3456 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3459 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3463 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3469 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3475 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3481 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3487 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3490 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3494 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3497 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3498 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3499 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3500 followed. Closes: #85483
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3504 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3506 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3507 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3508 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3512 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3515 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3516 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3517 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3518 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3519 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3520 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3521 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3522 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3523 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3524 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3525 Closes: #88464, #77743
3526 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3527 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3528 us to deal with that gracefully.
3529 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3531 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3532 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3533 a while, Closes: #51225
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3537 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3543 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3546 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3550 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3554 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3559 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3562 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3563 don't make packlist files.
3564 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3565 debhelper coding standards.
3566 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3567 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3571 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3574 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3578 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3581 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3582 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3583 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3584 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3585 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3586 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3587 but is mildly deprecated.
3588 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3589 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3590 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3591 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3592 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3593 switching to statoverrides..
3594 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3595 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3596 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3597 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3598 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3599 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3601 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3602 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3603 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3604 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3605 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3606 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3607 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3608 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3609 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3611 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3612 variable names, pod man pages).
3613 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3614 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3615 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3616 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3617 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3618 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3619 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3623 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3639 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3645 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3646 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3647 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3653 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3654 they were previously ignored.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3658 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3660 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3661 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3667 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3668 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3669 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3675 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3681 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3682 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3688 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3689 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3690 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3691 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3692 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3693 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3694 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3695 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3696 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3697 it is an obsolete program.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3703 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3711 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3717 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3721 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3723 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * typo: Closes, #78567
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3751 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3754 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3755 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3756 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3757 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3758 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3762 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3765 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3773 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3774 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3775 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3776 backwards-compatibility.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3780 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3783 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3784 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3785 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3786 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3787 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3788 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3790 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3791 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3792 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3794 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3796 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3797 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3798 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3799 should now be raised to severity important..
3800 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3801 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3808 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3841 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3842 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3843 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3844 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3857 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3858 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3859 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3860 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3861 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3862 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3870 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3883 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3891 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3892 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3893 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3894 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3902 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3905 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3908 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3909 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3912 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3914 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3915 the TODO entry about it.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3929 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3930 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3937 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3938 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3939 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3940 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3960 (this appears to be logal).
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3967 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3968 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3969 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3970 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3983 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3984 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3985 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3986 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3990 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3999 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4003 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4010 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4013 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4014 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4015 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4036 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4037 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4038 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4039 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4040 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4041 notice until v2 is complete.
4042 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4043 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4044 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4045 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4046 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4047 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4049 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4050 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4051 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4052 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4072 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4086 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4087 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4088 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4089 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4097 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4098 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4099 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4107 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4108 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4115 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4122 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4136 depend on the build and install targets.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4143 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4166 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4169 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4170 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4171 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4172 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4173 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4174 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4176 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4177 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4178 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4179 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4180 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4181 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4182 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4201 right place. Closes: #55065
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4205 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4215 * Copyright date updates.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4222 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4227 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4233 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4252 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4258 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4261 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4262 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4263 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4264 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4265 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4266 bits until all files have been registered.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4270 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installmanpages:
4273 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4274 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4275 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4276 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4277 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4278 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4279 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4280 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4281 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4282 otherwise change the result at all.
4284 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4285 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4286 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4287 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4288 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4302 act on files that don't exist.
4303 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4304 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4305 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4307 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4308 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4309 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4310 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4329 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4333 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4336 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4338 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4339 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4340 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4344 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4347 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4348 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4349 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4350 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4351 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4352 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4353 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4355 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4357 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4361 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4368 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4383 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4402 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4403 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4404 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4405 I made some changes, though:
4406 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4407 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4408 that is a clear violation of policy.
4409 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4410 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4411 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4412 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4413 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4414 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4415 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4416 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4417 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4419 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4432 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4439 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4440 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4458 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4461 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4462 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4463 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4464 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4465 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4466 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4467 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4481 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4482 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4486 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4495 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4502 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4503 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4509 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4518 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4522 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4525 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4526 for the dependancies to be generated.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4533 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4540 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4541 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4542 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4550 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4551 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4570 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4583 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4584 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4585 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4586 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4587 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4588 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4589 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4590 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4591 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4592 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4593 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4594 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4601 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4602 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4604 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4605 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4606 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4607 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4608 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4609 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4611 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4612 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4619 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4633 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4641 for building debhelper.
4642 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4656 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4663 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4664 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4665 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4666 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4667 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4668 it's always available.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4675 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4676 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4677 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4684 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4685 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4698 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4711 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4712 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4713 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4720 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4728 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4729 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4731 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4732 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4751 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4758 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4759 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4761 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4768 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4769 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4770 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4777 things if CDPATH is set.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4790 seems to make sense for the transition.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4797 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4805 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4806 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4813 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4817 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4820 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4821 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4822 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4823 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4836 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4837 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4838 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4839 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4840 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4841 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4842 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4843 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4844 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4845 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4850 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4853 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4854 * README: mention doc/v2
4855 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4856 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4860 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4862 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4863 be using this script RSN.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4867 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4870 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4871 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4872 more than 1 init script.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4876 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4879 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4883 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Changed perl version detection.
4886 * Changed call to find.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4893 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4895 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Really include dh_installpam.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4906 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4909 * Wrote man page for same.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4913 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4916 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4917 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4922 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4929 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4932 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4933 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4934 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4935 x bit was being set!
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4939 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4942 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4943 well. (Closes: 38900)
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4950 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4951 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4977 help from Julian Gilbey.
4978 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4979 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4980 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4981 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4982 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4983 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4984 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4989 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5017 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5024 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5028 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5031 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5044 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5063 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5064 may be deleted. (#35845)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Various man page enhancements.
5071 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5076 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5079 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5080 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5087 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5088 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5089 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5091 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5092 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Another very minor typo fix.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Very minor typo fix.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5118 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5119 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5123 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5129 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5132 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5133 variables properly (#34850).
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5143 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5146 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5147 (automatically generated by build process).
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5153 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5160 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5161 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5163 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5167 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5170 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5174 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * README: minor typo fix.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5180 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5183 leave it at that. :-)
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5187 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5202 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5203 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5204 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5208 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5211 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5215 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5218 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5222 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5225 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5226 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5227 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5228 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5235 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5236 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5237 Craig Small for spotting this.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5241 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5244 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5245 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5255 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5258 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5262 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5264 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5265 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5266 working on the last version of debhelper.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5273 being made. (#23255)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5277 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5286 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5290 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5293 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5294 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5295 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5296 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5300 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5303 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5304 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5305 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5306 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5308 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5309 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5311 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5331 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5332 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5333 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5334 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5335 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5336 suidregister actually supports it.
5337 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5338 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5342 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5349 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5352 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5353 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5354 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5355 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5356 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5357 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5358 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5362 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5364 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5365 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5369 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5372 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5373 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5374 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5375 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5382 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5384 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5385 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5386 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5387 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5388 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5389 effect, either. (#30118)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5393 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5402 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5403 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5416 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5417 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5418 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5419 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5423 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5426 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5427 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5440 packages, painlessly.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5462 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * The perl conversion is complete.
5466 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5468 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5469 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5470 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5478 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5479 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5480 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5487 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5489 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5491 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5492 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5499 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5500 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5513 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5514 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5515 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5516 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5517 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5521 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5524 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5525 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5526 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5527 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5531 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5534 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5538 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5541 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5542 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5543 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5544 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5545 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5546 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5547 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5548 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5552 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5561 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5562 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5563 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5568 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5571 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5575 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5578 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5582 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5585 sections of shared libraries.
5586 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5587 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5588 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5589 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5590 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5591 things you don't want them to.
5592 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5593 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5597 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5600 shared libraries. (#26414)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5606 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5607 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5608 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5609 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5613 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5617 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5619 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5620 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5621 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5622 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5623 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5627 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5630 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5634 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5637 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5638 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5643 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5646 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5650 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5653 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5654 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5655 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5656 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5657 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5659 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5660 remove debian/files properly.
5661 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5662 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5663 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5664 * Removed bogus menu file.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5671 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5675 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5678 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5679 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5680 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5681 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5682 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5683 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5687 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5690 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5691 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5692 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5693 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5704 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5707 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5708 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5710 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5711 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5712 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5713 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5714 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5715 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5719 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5722 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5723 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5724 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5725 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5726 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5727 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5728 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5729 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5730 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5731 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5732 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5733 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5734 passed any switches.
5735 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5742 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5743 at all for a long while.
5744 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5745 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5746 large chunks in the process.
5747 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5748 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5749 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5754 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5757 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5759 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5764 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5767 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5768 that don't always have the same files in them.
5769 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5770 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5771 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5775 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5779 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5780 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5781 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5782 updating 27 man pages.
5783 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5784 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5785 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5786 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5787 programs act on. (#25247)
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5795 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5796 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5797 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5798 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5799 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5800 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5805 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5812 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5819 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5822 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5826 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5832 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5835 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5836 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5837 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5838 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5839 package by accident.
5840 * Is version 1.0 next?
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5844 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5847 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5848 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5852 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5855 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5856 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5857 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5858 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5859 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5861 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5866 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5869 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5870 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5874 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5877 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5881 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5884 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5885 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5890 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5896 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5899 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5900 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5905 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5911 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5914 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5915 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5916 past week. Thanks, guys!
5918 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5919 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5920 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5921 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5922 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5923 would do in the same situation.
5924 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5925 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5927 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5929 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5930 permissions changed.
5931 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5932 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5933 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5934 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5935 files are treated identically.
5936 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5937 * Minor man page fixes.
5938 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5939 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5940 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5944 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5947 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5948 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5949 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5950 use -X multiple times, too.
5951 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5952 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5956 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5959 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5960 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5964 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5967 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5971 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5974 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5975 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5976 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5977 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5978 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5979 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5980 shape if you're starting a new package.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5984 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5987 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5991 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5994 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5995 because of missing symlinks.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5999 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6005 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6008 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6009 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6010 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6011 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6012 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6014 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6015 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6019 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6021 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6022 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6023 to be changed after the fact :-)
6024 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6028 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6031 no version string after the -V.
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6035 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6037 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6038 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6043 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6046 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6050 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6053 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6054 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6055 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6056 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6057 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6058 I always welcome corrections!
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6062 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6068 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6071 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6072 * Documented this new switch.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6076 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6079 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6080 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6081 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6082 no packages use the old behavior.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6086 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6089 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6090 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6094 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6097 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6101 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6107 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6110 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6114 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6117 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6118 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6119 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6123 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6129 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6132 into the source package by accident.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6139 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6140 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6141 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6142 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6143 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6144 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6149 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6153 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6154 inspired to implement some of it.
6155 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6162 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6166 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6169 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6170 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6174 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6177 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6178 have done.) (#17598)
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6182 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6188 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6194 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6196 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6197 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6201 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6204 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6205 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6209 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6212 argument processor in perl.
6213 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6214 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6215 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6216 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6220 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6223 type directories. (#16933)
6224 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6225 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6226 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6227 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6228 are supported. (#16935)
6229 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6234 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6237 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6241 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6245 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6246 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6247 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6248 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6249 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6250 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6254 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6257 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6258 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6260 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6261 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6262 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6263 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6264 a given package, or -i or -a.
6265 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6266 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6267 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6268 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6269 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6270 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6271 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6272 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6273 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6275 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6276 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6277 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6281 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6284 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6285 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6290 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6293 does not have a section.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6297 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6300 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6301 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6302 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6306 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * Fixed typo #16215.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6312 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6315 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6316 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6317 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6318 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6319 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6327 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6328 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6329 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6334 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6346 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6349 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6350 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6351 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6352 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6353 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6354 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6358 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6364 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6367 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6371 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6374 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6375 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6376 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6380 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6383 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6387 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6389 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6393 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6396 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6400 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6403 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6407 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6413 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6416 postinst, postrm, etc.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6426 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6429 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6430 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6431 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6432 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6433 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6440 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6441 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6448 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6452 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6455 installing package files into.
6456 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6465 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6475 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6478 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6482 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6485 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6486 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6487 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6488 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6492 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6494 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6495 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6496 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6497 multiple binary packages.
6498 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6499 should rebuild them with this version.
6500 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6504 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6507 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6511 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6514 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6518 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6521 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6522 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6523 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6524 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6525 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6526 debian/README.debian.
6527 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6528 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6529 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6530 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6531 in a few situations.)
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6535 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6541 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6547 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6550 * Fixed several man pages.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6554 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6557 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6558 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6562 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6565 is ready for general use.
6566 * Added man pages for all commands.
6567 * Multiple binary package support.
6568 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6569 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6570 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6572 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6573 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6574 auto-installed as parameters.
6575 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6577 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6580 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6581 the package build directory it is to act on.
6582 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6583 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6584 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6588 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6590 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6591 ready to replace debstd.
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400