1 debhelper (7.0.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
4 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
5 * Record debhelper commands that successfully finish in a per-package log
7 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
8 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
9 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
10 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
11 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
12 planned but not yet implemented.)
13 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
14 if the Makefile has such a target.
15 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
16 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
17 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
18 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
19 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
20 but not yet implemented.)
21 * New v7 mode, which only has one change from v6, and is the new
23 * dh_install: if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for files in
24 debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This allows
25 dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
27 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
28 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
29 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
31 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:20 -0400
36 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
39 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
40 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
44 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
46 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
47 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
48 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
52 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
58 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
64 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
67 just those installed by the program.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
71 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
74 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
75 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
79 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
82 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
83 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
84 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
85 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
89 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
92 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
93 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
97 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
100 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
101 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
105 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
108 with policy. Closes: #461392
109 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
110 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
111 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
112 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
113 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
117 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
120 Closes: #460340, #460351
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
124 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
127 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
128 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
129 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
130 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
134 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
137 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
138 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
139 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
140 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
141 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
142 package build directory won't work.
143 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
144 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
145 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
146 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
147 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
148 mode. Closes: #459426
149 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
154 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
157 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
161 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
165 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
166 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
167 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
168 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
169 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
170 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
174 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
177 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
178 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
179 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
180 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
184 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
187 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
188 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
189 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
190 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
191 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
195 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
198 debian/package.triggers files.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
202 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
205 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
209 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
212 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
213 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
214 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
215 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
220 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
223 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
227 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
230 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
231 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
233 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
238 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
242 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
243 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
244 * Typo. Closes: #441272
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
248 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
255 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
262 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
265 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
267 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
268 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
269 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
271 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
272 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
273 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
277 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
280 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
281 * Update urls to web page.
282 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
284 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
285 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
289 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
292 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
293 - typo in alternatives call
294 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
296 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
297 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
301 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
304 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
309 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
315 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
324 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
326 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
327 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
328 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
329 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
330 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
331 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
332 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
333 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
334 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
335 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
336 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
340 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
343 package install. Closes: #415717
344 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
345 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
346 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
347 script and then remove the python files.
348 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
349 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
350 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
351 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
352 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
353 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
354 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
355 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
356 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
357 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
358 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
359 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
360 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
364 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Correct typo in french translation
370 * Typo. Closes: #400571
371 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
373 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
375 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
376 Closes: #406921, #381940
377 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
379 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
380 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
381 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
382 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
383 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
384 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
385 specified). Closes: #381851
386 * Misc minor changes.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
390 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
397 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
398 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
402 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
408 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
409 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
412 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
413 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
415 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
416 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
417 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
418 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
422 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
425 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
428 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
432 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
438 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
444 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
445 a difficult situation.
446 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
447 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
448 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
449 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
450 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
451 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
452 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
453 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
454 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
455 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
459 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Non-maintainer upload.
462 * Update of dh_python
463 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
464 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
466 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
467 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
468 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
469 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
470 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
472 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
474 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Non-maintainer upload.
477 * Update of dh_python
478 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
479 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
480 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
481 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
482 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
483 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
484 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
485 specific python version. Closes: #373853
486 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
487 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
489 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
490 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
491 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
492 the not too-distant future).
493 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
494 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
495 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
496 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
497 thus made the build fail.
499 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
501 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Non-maintainer upload.
504 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
506 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
508 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
511 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
512 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
513 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
514 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
515 package. Closes: #301424
516 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
517 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
518 fonts). Closes: #372686
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
522 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
528 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
529 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
530 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
531 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
532 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
533 above, but already depends on that.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
540 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
541 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
542 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
543 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
544 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
554 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
560 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
561 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
568 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
572 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
576 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
577 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
578 new version (0.24.1).
579 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
580 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
583 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
584 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
585 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
586 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
587 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
588 new directory on their own.
589 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
590 * Fix broken directory removal code.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
597 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
598 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
599 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
600 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
604 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
607 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
608 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
609 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
610 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
611 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
615 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
621 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Typo. Closes: #358904
625 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
626 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
630 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
631 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
637 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
638 || exit 0 instead of the intended
640 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
641 ignored. Closes: #337664
643 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
648 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
654 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
659 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
660 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
661 the dh_installdebconf manpage
662 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
663 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
664 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
665 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
669 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
672 version. Closes: #350607
673 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
674 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
675 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
676 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
683 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
684 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
685 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
689 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
696 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Minor bug fix from last release.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
702 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
705 language guessing. Closes: #193221
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
709 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
712 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
713 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
714 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
715 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
716 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
717 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
721 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
724 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
725 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
730 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
733 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
737 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
740 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
744 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
747 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
748 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
749 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
750 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
751 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
752 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
756 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
759 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
760 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
761 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
762 link. Closes: #346405
763 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
766 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
767 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
768 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
769 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
770 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
771 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
775 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
782 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
784 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
788 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
791 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
795 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
798 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
803 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
807 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
808 installed. Closes: #342033
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
812 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
815 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
816 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
817 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
822 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
828 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
834 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
838 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
839 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
840 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
844 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
847 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
852 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
859 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
865 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
867 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
868 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
869 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
870 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
871 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
872 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
873 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
874 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
876 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
880 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
883 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
884 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
888 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
891 in standard man dirs.
892 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
896 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
902 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
905 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
910 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
917 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
924 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
927 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
928 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
932 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
934 * NMU with maintainer approval.
935 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
936 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
937 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
939 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
941 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
947 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
953 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
956 mode. Closes: #324161
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
960 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
963 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
964 behavior change. Closes: #249815
965 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
966 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
971 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
974 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
975 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
976 is necesary for sanity.
977 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
978 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
983 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
985 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
986 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
990 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
993 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
997 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1006 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1007 released, so use at your own risk.
1008 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1009 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1011 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1012 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1013 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1014 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1015 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1016 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1017 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1018 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1019 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1020 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1021 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1022 including twice per config file line now..
1023 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1024 and simplfy the rules file.
1025 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1026 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1027 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1029 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1030 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1034 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1037 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1041 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1044 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1048 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1051 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1055 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1058 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1059 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1060 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1061 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1062 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1063 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1067 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1070 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1071 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1072 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1077 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1080 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1081 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1086 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1089 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1090 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1091 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1096 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1099 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1100 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1101 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1105 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1111 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1118 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1121 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1122 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1123 unknown. Closes: #282924
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1134 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Spanish man page updates.
1137 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1142 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1148 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1151 * dh_desktop: reindent
1152 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1153 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1157 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1163 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1165 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1169 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1171 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1175 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1178 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1179 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1183 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1189 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1202 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1205 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1212 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1213 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1214 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1215 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1216 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1217 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1219 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1220 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1221 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1222 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1223 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1224 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1225 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1226 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1227 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1228 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1229 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1230 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1231 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1232 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1233 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1234 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1238 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1248 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1252 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1255 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1262 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1269 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1279 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1285 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1291 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1294 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1295 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1296 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1300 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1303 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1307 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1310 but occasionally right and necessary.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1314 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1317 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1318 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1319 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1320 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1321 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1325 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1328 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1330 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1331 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1332 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1333 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1334 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1335 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1336 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1337 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1338 postinst scripts for udebs.
1339 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1343 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1346 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1348 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1349 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1353 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1359 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1366 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1373 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1376 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1383 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1387 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1390 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1393 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1394 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1404 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1407 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1411 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1414 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1415 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1416 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1418 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1420 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1421 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1422 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1426 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1429 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1434 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1437 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1438 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1439 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1450 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1459 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1460 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1461 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1462 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1463 associated -dbg packages.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1470 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1474 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1477 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1484 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1491 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1499 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1506 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1514 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1522 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1523 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1524 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1525 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1526 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1527 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1528 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1529 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1530 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1531 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1538 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1543 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1546 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1547 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1554 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1555 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1563 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1570 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1574 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1577 out section number. Closes: #204731
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1581 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1600 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1603 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1604 removal. Closes: #204286
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1611 renaming. Closes: #203548
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1618 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1619 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1635 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1641 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1644 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1645 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1646 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1650 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1653 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1654 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1664 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1671 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1674 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1682 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1689 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1691 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1692 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1699 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1707 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1719 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1726 it break hard links (see #188663).
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1733 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1743 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1747 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1748 debconf-mergetemplates
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1752 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1755 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1759 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1762 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1766 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1769 * Update debhelper(1).
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1776 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1777 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1778 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1779 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1780 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1787 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1788 the shell. Closes: #178524
1789 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1796 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1800 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1803 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1807 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1810 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1811 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1812 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1813 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1818 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1821 files from installation.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1828 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1829 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1833 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1836 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1840 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1843 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1863 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1864 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1866 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1870 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1873 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1874 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1875 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1876 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1880 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1883 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1890 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1891 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1895 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1899 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1914 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1915 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1916 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1924 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1925 practice. Closes: #163303
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1945 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1947 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1948 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1949 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1950 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1951 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1958 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1979 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2012 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2013 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2014 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2015 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2036 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2037 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2044 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2045 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2046 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2047 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2048 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2055 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2057 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2065 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2072 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2073 right thing. Closes: #150644
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Stupid, evil typo.
2080 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2094 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2095 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2109 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2116 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2117 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2125 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2138 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2139 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Removing perl warning message.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2155 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2158 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2159 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2160 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2161 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2162 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2163 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2164 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2165 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2185 debconf-mergetemplate.
2186 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2187 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2194 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2195 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2196 dh_install, which ...
2197 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2198 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2199 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2200 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2201 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2202 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2203 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2204 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2205 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2206 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2207 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2208 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2209 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2210 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2211 other minor changes.
2212 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2213 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2214 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2215 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2216 course there's -X ..)
2217 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2218 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2219 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2221 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2222 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2223 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2224 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2225 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2230 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2236 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2239 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2243 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2249 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2255 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2261 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2267 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2270 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2271 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2272 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2273 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2275 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2276 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2280 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2286 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2289 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2293 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2296 upset. Closes: #131322
2298 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2300 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2303 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2304 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2305 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2306 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2307 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2308 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2309 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2310 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2311 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2312 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2313 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2314 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2315 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2316 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2317 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2319 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2323 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2326 - Better indenting of generated code.
2327 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2331 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2335 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2336 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2337 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2338 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2339 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2340 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2341 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2345 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2348 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2352 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2355 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2356 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2357 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2358 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2359 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2360 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2361 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2362 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2363 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2364 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2365 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2366 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2367 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2368 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2369 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2374 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2380 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2383 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2384 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2388 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2391 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2392 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2396 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2402 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2405 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2406 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2407 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2408 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2409 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2414 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2420 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2423 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2427 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2430 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2435 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2441 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2444 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2448 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2454 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2458 Also some indentation fixes.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2462 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2465 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2466 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2467 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2468 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2469 Closes: #106514, #85520
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2473 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2479 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2491 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2497 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2503 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2506 change it in debhelper v4..
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2510 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2516 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2519 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2523 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2526 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2530 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2536 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2539 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2540 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2541 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2542 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2543 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2544 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2545 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2546 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2547 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2548 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2549 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2550 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2557 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2561 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2568 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2571 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2572 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2573 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2574 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2575 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2576 program those options go to. So, for example,
2577 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2578 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2579 something complex. Closes: #89311
2580 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2584 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2587 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2588 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2589 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2593 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2596 through loop. Closes: #98598
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2600 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Missing semi-colon.
2603 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2604 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2608 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2611 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2612 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2613 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2617 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2620 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2621 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2625 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2628 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2632 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2635 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2636 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2640 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2643 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2644 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2645 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2649 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2652 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2653 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2654 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2658 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2661 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2665 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2671 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2677 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2683 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2689 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2692 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2696 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2699 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2700 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2701 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2702 followed. Closes: #85483
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2706 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2708 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2709 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2710 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2714 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2717 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2718 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2719 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2720 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2721 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2722 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2723 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2724 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2725 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2726 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2727 Closes: #88464, #77743
2728 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2729 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2730 us to deal with that gracefully.
2731 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2733 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2734 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2735 a while, Closes: #51225
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2739 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2745 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2748 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2752 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2756 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2761 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2764 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2765 don't make packlist files.
2766 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2767 debhelper coding standards.
2768 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2769 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2773 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2776 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2780 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2783 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2784 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2785 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2786 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2787 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2788 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2789 but is mildly deprecated.
2790 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2791 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2792 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2793 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2794 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2795 switching to statoverrides..
2796 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2797 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2798 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2799 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2800 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2801 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2803 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2804 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2805 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2806 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2807 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2808 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2809 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2810 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2811 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2813 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2814 variable names, pod man pages).
2815 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2816 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2817 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2818 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2819 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2820 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2821 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2825 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2831 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2838 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2841 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2845 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2847 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2848 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2849 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2853 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2855 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2856 they were previously ignored.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2860 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2862 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2863 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2867 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2869 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2870 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2871 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2875 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2877 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2881 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2883 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2884 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2888 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2890 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2891 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2892 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2893 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2894 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2895 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2896 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2897 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2898 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2899 it is an obsolete program.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2905 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2913 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2915 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2919 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2921 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2923 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2925 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2935 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * typo: Closes, #78567
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2941 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2947 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2953 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2956 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2957 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2958 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2959 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2960 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2964 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2967 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2972 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2975 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2976 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2977 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2978 backwards-compatability.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2982 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2985 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2986 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2987 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2988 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2989 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2990 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2992 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2993 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2994 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2996 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2998 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2999 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3000 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3001 should now be raised to severity important..
3002 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3003 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3007 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3010 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3015 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3021 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3027 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3033 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3040 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3043 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3044 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3045 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3046 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3050 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3056 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3059 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3060 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3061 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3062 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3063 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3064 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3069 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3072 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3076 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3082 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3085 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3090 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3093 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3094 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3095 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3096 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3100 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3104 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3107 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3110 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3111 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3114 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3116 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3117 the TODO entry about it.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3128 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3131 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3132 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3136 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3139 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3140 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3141 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3142 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3152 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3162 (this appears to be logal).
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3166 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3169 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3170 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3171 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3172 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3182 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3185 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3186 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3187 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3188 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3192 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3201 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3205 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3212 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3215 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3216 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3217 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3222 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3229 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3235 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3238 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3239 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3240 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3241 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3242 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3243 notice until v2 is complete.
3244 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3245 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3246 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3247 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3248 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3249 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3251 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3252 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3253 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3254 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3258 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3264 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3271 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3274 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3278 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3285 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3288 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3289 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3290 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3291 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3296 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3299 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3300 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3301 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3309 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3310 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3314 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3317 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3321 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3324 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3328 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3335 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3338 depend on the build and install targets.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3342 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3345 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3371 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3372 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3373 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3374 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3375 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3376 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3378 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3379 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3380 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3381 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3382 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3383 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3384 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3403 right place. Closes: #55065
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3417 * Copyright date updates.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3424 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3429 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3435 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3442 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3448 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3454 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3463 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3464 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3465 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3466 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3467 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3468 bits until all files have been registered.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3472 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installmanpages:
3475 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3476 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3477 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3478 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3479 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3480 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3481 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3482 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3483 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3484 otherwise change the result at all.
3486 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3487 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3488 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3489 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3490 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3501 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3504 act on files that don't exist.
3505 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3506 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3507 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3509 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3510 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3511 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3512 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3516 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3528 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3531 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3538 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3540 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3541 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3542 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3546 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3549 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3550 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3551 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3552 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3553 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3554 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3555 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3557 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3559 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3563 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3570 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3585 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3601 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3604 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3605 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3606 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3607 I made some changes, though:
3608 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3609 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3610 that is a clear violation of policy.
3611 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3612 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3613 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3614 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3615 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3616 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3617 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3618 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3619 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3621 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3634 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3641 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3642 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3660 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3663 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3664 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3665 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3666 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3667 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3668 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3669 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3683 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3684 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3694 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3697 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3704 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3705 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3711 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3720 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3727 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3728 for the dependancies to be generated.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3735 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3742 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3743 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3744 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3752 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3753 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3769 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3772 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3776 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3785 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3786 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3787 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3788 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3789 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3790 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3791 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3792 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3793 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3794 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3795 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3796 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3803 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3804 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3806 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3807 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3808 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3809 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3810 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3811 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3813 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3814 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3821 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3835 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3843 for building debhelper.
3844 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3858 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3862 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3865 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3866 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3867 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3868 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3869 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3870 it's always available.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3877 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3878 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3879 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3886 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3887 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3891 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3897 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3900 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3904 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3913 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3914 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3915 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3922 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3927 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3930 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3931 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3933 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3934 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3953 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3960 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3961 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3963 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3970 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3971 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3972 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3979 things if CDPATH is set.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3983 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3992 seems to make sense for the transition.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3996 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3999 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4007 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4008 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4015 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4022 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4023 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4024 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4025 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4038 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4039 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4040 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4041 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4042 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4043 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4044 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4045 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4046 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4047 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4052 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4055 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4056 * README: mention doc/v2
4057 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4058 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4062 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4064 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4065 be using this script RSN.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4069 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4072 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4073 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4074 more than 1 init script.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4078 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4081 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4085 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Changed perl version detection.
4088 * Changed call to find.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4092 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4095 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4097 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4102 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Really include dh_installpam.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4108 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4111 * Wrote man page for same.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4115 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4118 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4119 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4124 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4131 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4134 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4135 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4136 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4137 x bit was being set!
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4141 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4144 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4145 well. (Closes: 38900)
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4149 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4152 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4153 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4157 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4170 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4176 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4179 help from Julian Gilbey.
4180 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4181 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4182 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4183 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4184 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4185 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4186 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4191 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4197 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4204 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4210 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4216 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4219 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4223 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4226 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4230 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4233 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4237 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4243 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4246 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4250 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4256 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4262 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4265 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4266 may be deleted. (#35845)
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4270 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Various man page enhancements.
4273 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4278 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4281 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4282 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4286 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4289 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4290 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4291 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4293 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4294 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4299 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4305 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Another very minor typo fix.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4311 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Very minor typo fix.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4317 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4320 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4321 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4331 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4334 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4335 variables properly (#34850).
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4339 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4345 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4348 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4349 (automatically generated by build process).
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4353 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4355 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4359 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4362 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4363 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4365 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4369 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4372 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4376 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * README: minor typo fix.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4382 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4385 leave it at that. :-)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4389 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4395 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4401 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4404 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4405 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4406 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4410 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4413 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4417 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4420 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4427 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4428 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4429 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4430 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4434 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4437 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4438 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4439 Craig Small for spotting this.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4443 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4446 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4447 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4451 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4457 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4460 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4464 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4466 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4467 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4468 working on the last version of debhelper.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4472 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4475 being made. (#23255)
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4479 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4485 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4488 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4495 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4496 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4497 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4498 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4502 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4505 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4506 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4507 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4508 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4510 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4511 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4513 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4524 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4530 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4533 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4534 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4535 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4536 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4537 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4538 suidregister actually supports it.
4539 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4540 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4544 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4551 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4554 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4555 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4556 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4557 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4558 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4559 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4560 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4564 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4566 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4567 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4571 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4574 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4575 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4576 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4577 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4581 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4584 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4586 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4587 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4588 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4589 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4590 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4591 effect, either. (#30118)
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4595 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4604 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4605 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4609 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4618 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4619 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4620 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4621 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4628 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4629 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4633 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4639 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4642 packages, painlessly.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4646 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4658 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * The perl conversion is complete.
4668 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4670 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4671 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4672 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4680 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4681 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4682 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4689 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4691 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4693 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4694 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4701 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4702 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4706 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4712 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4715 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4716 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4717 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4718 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4719 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4726 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4727 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4728 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4729 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4733 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4736 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4740 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4743 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4744 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4745 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4746 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4747 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4748 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4749 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4750 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4754 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4760 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4763 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4764 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4765 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4770 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4773 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4777 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4780 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4787 sections of shared libraries.
4788 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4789 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4790 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4791 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4792 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4793 things you don't want them to.
4794 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4795 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4799 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4802 shared libraries. (#26414)
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4808 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4809 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4810 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4811 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4819 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4821 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4822 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4823 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4824 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4825 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4832 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4836 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4839 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4840 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4848 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4852 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4855 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4856 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4857 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4858 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4859 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4861 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4862 remove debian/files properly.
4863 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4864 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4865 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4866 * Removed bogus menu file.
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4870 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4873 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4880 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4881 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4882 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4883 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4884 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4885 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4889 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4892 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4893 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4894 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4895 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4899 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4906 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4909 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4910 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4912 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4913 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4914 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4915 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4916 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4917 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4924 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4925 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4926 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4927 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4928 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4929 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4930 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4931 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4932 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4933 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4934 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4935 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4936 passed any switches.
4937 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4941 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4944 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4945 at all for a long while.
4946 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4947 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4948 large chunks in the process.
4949 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4950 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4951 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4959 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4961 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4966 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4969 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4970 that don't always have the same files in them.
4971 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4972 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4973 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4981 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4982 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4983 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4984 updating 27 man pages.
4985 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4986 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4987 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4988 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4989 programs act on. (#25247)
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4993 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4997 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4998 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4999 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5000 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5001 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5002 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5007 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5014 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5021 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5024 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5028 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5034 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5037 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5038 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5039 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5040 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5041 package by accident.
5042 * Is version 1.0 next?
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5046 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5049 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5050 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5054 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5057 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5058 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5059 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5060 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5061 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5063 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5068 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5071 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5072 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5076 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5079 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5083 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5086 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5087 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5092 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5098 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5101 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5102 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5107 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5113 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5116 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5117 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5118 past week. Thanks, guys!
5120 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5121 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5122 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5123 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5124 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5125 would do in the same situation.
5126 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5127 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5129 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5131 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5132 permissions changed.
5133 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5134 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5135 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5136 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5137 files are treated identically.
5138 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5139 * Minor man page fixes.
5140 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5141 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5142 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5146 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5149 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5150 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5151 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5152 use -X multiple times, too.
5153 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5154 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5158 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5161 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5162 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5166 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5169 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5173 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5176 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5177 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5178 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5179 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5180 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5181 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5182 shape if you're starting a new package.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5186 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5189 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5193 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5196 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5197 because of missing symlinks.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5201 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5207 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5210 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5211 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5212 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5213 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5214 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5216 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5217 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5221 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5223 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5224 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5225 to be changed after the fact :-)
5226 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5230 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5233 no version string after the -V.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5237 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5239 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5240 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5245 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5248 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5252 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5255 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5256 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5257 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5258 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5259 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5260 I always welcome corrections!
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5264 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5270 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5273 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5274 * Documented this new switch.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5278 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5281 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5282 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5283 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5284 no packages use the old behavior.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5288 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5291 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5292 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5296 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5299 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5303 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5309 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5312 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5316 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5319 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5320 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5321 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5325 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5331 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5334 into the source package by accident.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5338 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5341 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5342 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5343 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5344 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5345 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5346 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5351 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5355 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5356 inspired to implement some of it.
5357 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5361 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5364 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5368 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5371 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5372 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5376 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5379 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5380 have done.) (#17598)
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5384 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5390 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5396 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5399 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5403 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5406 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5407 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5411 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5414 argument processor in perl.
5415 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5416 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5417 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5418 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5425 type directories. (#16933)
5426 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5427 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5428 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5429 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5430 are supported. (#16935)
5431 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5439 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5443 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5447 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5448 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5449 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5450 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5451 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5452 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5456 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5459 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5460 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5462 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5463 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5464 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5465 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5466 a given package, or -i or -a.
5467 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5468 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5469 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5470 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5471 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5472 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5473 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5474 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5475 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5477 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5478 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5479 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5483 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5486 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5487 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5492 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5495 does not have a section.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5499 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5502 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5503 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5504 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5508 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * Fixed typo #16215.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5514 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5517 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5518 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5519 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5520 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5521 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5526 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5529 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5530 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5531 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5536 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5542 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5548 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5551 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5552 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5553 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5554 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5555 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5556 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5560 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5566 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5569 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5573 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5576 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5577 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5578 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5582 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5585 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5589 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5595 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5598 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5602 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5605 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5609 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5615 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5618 postinst, postrm, etc.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5622 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5628 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5631 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5632 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5633 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5634 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5635 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5642 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5643 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5650 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5654 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5657 installing package files into.
5658 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5663 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5667 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5671 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5677 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5680 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5684 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5687 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5688 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5689 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5690 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5694 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5696 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5697 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5698 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5699 multiple binary packages.
5700 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5701 should rebuild them with this version.
5702 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5706 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5709 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5713 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5716 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5720 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5723 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5724 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5725 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5726 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5727 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5728 debian/README.debian.
5729 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5730 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5731 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5732 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5733 in a few situations.)
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5737 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5743 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5749 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5752 * Fixed several man pages.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5756 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5759 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5760 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5764 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5767 is ready for general use.
5768 * Added man pages for all commands.
5769 * Multiple binary package support.
5770 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5771 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5772 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5774 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5775 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5776 auto-installed as parameters.
5777 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5779 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5782 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5783 the package build directory it is to act on.
5784 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5785 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5786 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5790 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5792 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5793 ready to replace debstd.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400