1 debhelper (8.9.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
4 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:16:28 -0400
8 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
14 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
17 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
18 may need to disable this.
19 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
20 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
21 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
22 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
26 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
29 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
30 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
34 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
37 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
38 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
40 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
41 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
42 to dh. Closes: #643069
43 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
44 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
48 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
51 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
52 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
53 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
54 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
56 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
57 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
58 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
60 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
61 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
62 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
63 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
64 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
65 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
66 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
67 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
68 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
69 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
70 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
71 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
72 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
73 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
74 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
78 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
85 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
88 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
90 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
96 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
99 Use override targets instead.
100 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
101 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
102 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
103 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
104 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
105 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
106 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
107 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
108 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
109 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
114 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
117 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
121 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
127 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
130 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
131 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
132 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
133 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
134 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
135 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
139 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
142 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
143 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
144 the targets. Closes: #629139
145 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
146 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
147 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
148 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
149 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
150 are already set to other values will not be changed.
152 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
153 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
154 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
155 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
156 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
161 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
167 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
170 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
171 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
175 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
178 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
179 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
180 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
181 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
182 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
183 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
184 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
189 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
193 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
194 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
196 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
197 changes may be added to that mode.
198 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
199 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
200 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
201 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
202 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
203 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
204 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
205 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
206 * Removed old example rules files.
207 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
211 * update french translation.
212 * Fix french misspelling.
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
216 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
219 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
223 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
226 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
227 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
228 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
229 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
230 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
231 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
232 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
236 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
239 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
240 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
241 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
242 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
243 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
244 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
246 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
247 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
248 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
249 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
250 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
251 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
252 (Thanks, David Prévot)
253 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
254 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
255 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
256 target fails. Closes: #601037
257 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
259 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
260 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
261 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
262 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
263 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
265 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
266 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
268 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
269 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
270 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
272 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
274 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
277 * update french translation.
278 * Fix french misspelling.
279 * French translation update after massive man page typography
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
283 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
289 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
293 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
295 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
299 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
301 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
302 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
303 introduced by the fix to #527990.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
307 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
310 changes are planned for that mode.
311 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
312 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
313 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
314 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
315 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
316 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
317 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
318 (genesis) still uses them.
319 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
320 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
321 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
322 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
323 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
324 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
325 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
326 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
327 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
328 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
329 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
330 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
331 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
332 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
333 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
334 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
335 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
336 commands. (See #570039)
337 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
339 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
344 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
348 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
349 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
350 in control file or debhelper config files.
351 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
355 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
358 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
359 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
363 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
366 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
370 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
373 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
374 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
378 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Updated French translation.
381 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
382 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
383 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
384 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
386 * Typo. Closes: #571968
387 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
388 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
389 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
390 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
391 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
392 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
393 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
394 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
395 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
397 * dh: Improve documentation.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
401 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
403 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
404 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
405 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
409 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
412 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
416 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
419 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
423 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
426 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
427 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
428 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
429 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
430 options that they do not support.
431 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
432 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
433 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
434 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
435 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
436 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
441 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
445 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
446 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
447 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
448 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
449 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
450 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
451 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
452 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
453 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
457 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
460 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
461 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
462 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
463 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
467 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Typo. Closes: #558654
470 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
471 installed. Closes: #558782
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
475 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
478 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
479 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
480 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
481 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
482 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
486 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
488 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
489 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
490 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
491 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
495 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
498 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
499 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
503 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
505 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
509 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
511 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
512 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
513 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
514 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
515 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
516 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
517 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
518 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
519 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
520 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
521 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
522 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
523 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
524 time soon.) Closes: #554509
525 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
527 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
528 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
529 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
530 document id. Closes: #555677
531 * Typo. Closes: #555659
532 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
533 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
534 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
535 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
537 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
538 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
539 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
544 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
547 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
548 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
549 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
550 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
551 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
552 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
553 translation (#494300 part 2)
556 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
558 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
559 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
560 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
561 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
562 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
566 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
569 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
570 (It was only run once due to logging.)
571 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
572 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
573 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
574 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
575 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
576 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
577 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
578 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
579 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
580 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
584 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
588 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
591 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
592 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
596 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
599 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
600 flag with arch all/any packages.
601 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
602 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
603 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
604 situation. Closes: #540794
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
608 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
612 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
613 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
614 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
615 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
616 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
619 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
620 the default. Closes: #538201
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
625 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
629 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
630 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
631 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
632 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
633 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
635 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
636 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
637 * Above Closes: #491117
638 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
643 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
649 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
650 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
651 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
655 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
658 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
659 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
660 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
661 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
662 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
667 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
670 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
671 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
675 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
677 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
681 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
683 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
684 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
686 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
687 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
688 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
692 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
694 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
695 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
699 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
705 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
707 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
708 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
709 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
714 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
716 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
720 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
723 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
724 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
725 created by using `python' first during build and install.
727 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
732 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
734 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
738 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
740 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
741 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
745 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
747 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
751 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
753 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
757 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
759 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
760 contributed by Modestas Vainius
761 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
762 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
763 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
764 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
765 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
766 that support it. Closes: #480577
767 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
768 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
769 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
771 - Adds support for cmake.
772 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
773 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
775 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
777 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
778 that use them. The options are:
779 --sourcedir, --destdir
780 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
781 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
782 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
783 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
784 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
788 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
794 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
797 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
798 default. Closes: #537140
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
802 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
805 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
806 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
810 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
813 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
817 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
820 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
824 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
827 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
829 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
830 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
831 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
835 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
838 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
839 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
840 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
844 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
847 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
848 warning or deprecation message.
849 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
850 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
851 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
852 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
853 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
854 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
855 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
856 Closes: #534639, #357434
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
860 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
866 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
869 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
870 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
871 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
872 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
874 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
875 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
876 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
880 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
886 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
893 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
896 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
900 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
904 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
905 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
907 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
908 file support. Closes: #494914
909 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
913 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
916 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
917 parameters. Closes: #527256
918 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
919 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
920 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
924 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
928 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
929 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
930 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
934 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
937 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
938 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
939 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
943 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
946 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
947 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
949 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
950 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
951 by triggers). Closes: #521181
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
955 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
959 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
963 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
966 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
967 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
968 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
969 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
974 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
980 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
983 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
984 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
985 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
986 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
987 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
989 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
990 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
991 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
992 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
993 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
994 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
998 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1001 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1002 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1003 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1004 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1005 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1007 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1011 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1013 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1017 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1019 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1020 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1021 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1022 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1023 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1024 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1025 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1026 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1027 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1028 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1029 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1033 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1035 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1036 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1038 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1039 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1040 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1041 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1043 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1044 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1048 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1051 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1052 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1053 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1054 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1055 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1056 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1058 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1059 that uses them. Affected options are:
1060 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1061 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1062 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1063 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1064 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1065 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1066 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1067 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1068 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1069 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1070 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1071 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1082 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1088 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1091 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1093 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1094 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1095 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1096 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1097 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1098 than the old method.
1099 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1101 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1102 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1103 rules (see bug #509756).
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1107 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1113 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1114 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1115 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1116 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1120 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1123 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1124 empty files. Closes: #490937
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1128 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1134 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1141 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1144 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1145 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1146 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1147 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1152 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1154 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1155 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1156 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1157 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1161 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1164 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1165 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1166 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1167 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1168 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1172 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1179 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1182 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1183 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1184 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1185 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1186 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1187 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1188 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1189 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1190 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1194 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1197 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1198 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1199 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1200 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1202 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1203 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1204 breaking backwards compatibility.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1208 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1211 message in perl 5.10.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1215 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1221 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1224 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1228 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1231 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1235 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1238 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1239 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1240 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1241 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1242 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1243 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1244 logging by dh_listpackages.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1248 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1251 run and there are no packages of that type.
1252 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1253 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1254 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1255 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1257 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1258 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1262 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1265 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1266 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1270 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1273 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1274 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1276 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1277 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1278 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1279 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1280 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1281 planned but not yet implemented.)
1282 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1283 if the Makefile has such a target.
1284 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1285 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1286 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1287 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1288 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1289 but not yet implemented.)
1290 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1291 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1292 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1293 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1294 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1296 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1298 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1299 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1301 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1302 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1303 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1308 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1311 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1312 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1316 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1318 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1319 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1320 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1324 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1330 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1336 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1339 just those installed by the program.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1343 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1346 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1347 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1351 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1354 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1355 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1356 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1357 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1361 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1364 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1365 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1369 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1372 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1373 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1377 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1380 with policy. Closes: #461392
1381 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1382 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1383 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1384 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1385 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1389 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1392 Closes: #460340, #460351
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1396 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1399 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1400 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1401 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1402 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1406 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1409 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1410 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1411 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1412 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1413 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1414 package build directory won't work.
1415 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1416 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1417 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1418 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1419 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1420 mode. Closes: #459426
1421 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1426 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1429 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1437 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1438 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1439 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1440 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1441 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1442 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1446 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1449 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1450 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1451 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1452 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1456 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1459 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1460 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1461 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1462 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1463 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1470 debian/package.triggers files.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1477 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1481 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1484 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1485 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1486 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1487 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1492 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1495 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1499 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1502 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1503 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1505 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1510 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1514 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1515 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1516 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1520 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1527 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1534 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1537 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1539 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1540 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1541 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1543 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1544 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1545 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1549 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1552 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1553 * Update urls to web page.
1554 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1555 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1556 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1557 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1561 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1564 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1565 - typo in alternatives call
1566 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1568 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1569 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1573 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1576 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1581 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1596 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1598 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1599 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1600 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1601 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1602 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1603 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1604 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1605 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1606 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1607 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1608 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1612 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1615 package install. Closes: #415717
1616 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1617 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1618 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1619 script and then remove the python files.
1620 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1621 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1622 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1623 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1624 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1625 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1626 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1627 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1628 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1629 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1630 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1631 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1632 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Correct typo in french translation
1642 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1643 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1645 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1647 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1648 Closes: #406921, #381940
1649 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1651 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1652 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1653 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1654 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1655 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1656 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1657 specified). Closes: #381851
1658 * Misc minor changes.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1669 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1670 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1680 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1681 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1684 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1685 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1687 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1688 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1689 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1690 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1694 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1697 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1700 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1704 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1710 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1716 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1717 a difficult situation.
1718 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1719 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1720 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1721 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1722 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1723 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1724 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1725 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1726 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1727 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1731 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Non-maintainer upload.
1734 * Update of dh_python
1735 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1736 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1738 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1739 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1740 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1741 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1742 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1744 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1746 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Non-maintainer upload.
1749 * Update of dh_python
1750 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1751 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1752 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1753 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1754 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1755 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1756 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1757 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1758 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1759 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1761 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1762 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1763 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1764 the not too-distant future).
1765 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1766 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1767 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1768 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1769 thus made the build fail.
1771 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1773 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Non-maintainer upload.
1776 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1778 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1780 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1783 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1784 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1785 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1786 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1787 package. Closes: #301424
1788 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1789 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1790 fonts). Closes: #372686
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1794 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1800 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1801 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1802 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1803 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1804 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1805 above, but already depends on that.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1809 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1812 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1813 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1814 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1815 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1816 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1820 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1826 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1832 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1833 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1837 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1840 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1844 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1848 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1849 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1850 new version (0.24.1).
1851 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1852 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1855 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1856 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1857 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1858 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1859 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1860 new directory on their own.
1861 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1862 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1866 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1869 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1870 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1871 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1872 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1876 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1879 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1880 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1881 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1882 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1883 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1887 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1893 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1897 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1898 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1902 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1903 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1909 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1910 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1912 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1913 ignored. Closes: #337664
1915 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1920 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1931 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1932 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1933 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1934 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1935 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1936 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1937 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1941 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1944 version. Closes: #350607
1945 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1946 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1947 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1948 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1952 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1955 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1956 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1957 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1968 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1974 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1977 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1981 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1984 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1985 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1986 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1987 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1988 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1989 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1993 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1996 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1997 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2002 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2005 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2009 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2012 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2016 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2019 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2020 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2021 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2022 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2023 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2024 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2028 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2032 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2033 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2034 link. Closes: #346405
2035 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2037 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2038 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2039 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2040 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2041 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2042 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2043 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2047 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2054 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2060 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2063 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2067 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2070 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2075 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2079 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2080 installed. Closes: #342033
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2084 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2087 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2088 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2089 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2094 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2100 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2106 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2110 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2111 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2112 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2116 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2119 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2124 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2131 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2137 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2140 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2141 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2142 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2143 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2144 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2145 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2146 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2148 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2155 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2156 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2163 in standard man dirs.
2164 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2177 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2196 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2199 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2200 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2207 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2208 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2209 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2211 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2213 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2228 mode. Closes: #324161
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2235 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2236 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2237 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2238 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2246 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2247 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2248 is necesary for sanity.
2249 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2250 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2257 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2258 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2265 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2278 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2279 released, so use at your own risk.
2280 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2281 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2283 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2284 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2285 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2286 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2287 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2288 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2289 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2290 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2291 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2292 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2293 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2294 including twice per config file line now..
2295 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2296 and simplfy the rules file.
2297 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2298 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2299 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2301 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2302 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2309 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2316 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2323 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2330 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2331 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2332 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2333 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2334 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2335 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2342 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2343 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2344 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2349 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2352 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2353 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2361 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2362 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2363 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2368 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2371 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2372 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2373 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2390 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2393 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2394 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2395 unknown. Closes: #282924
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2406 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Spanish man page updates.
2409 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2423 * dh_desktop: reindent
2424 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2425 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2437 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2443 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2447 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2450 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2451 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2455 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2477 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2484 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2485 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2486 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2487 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2488 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2489 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2491 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2492 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2493 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2494 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2495 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2496 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2497 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2498 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2499 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2500 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2501 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2502 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2503 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2504 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2505 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2506 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2520 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2524 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2527 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2534 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2541 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2563 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2566 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2567 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2568 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2575 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2582 but occasionally right and necessary.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2586 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2589 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2590 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2591 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2592 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2593 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2597 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2600 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2602 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2603 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2604 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2605 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2606 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2607 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2608 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2609 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2610 postinst scripts for udebs.
2611 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2615 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2618 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2620 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2621 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2625 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2648 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2652 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2655 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2662 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2665 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2666 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2670 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2679 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2683 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2686 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2687 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2688 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2690 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2692 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2693 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2694 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2698 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2701 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2706 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2709 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2710 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2711 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2716 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2731 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2732 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2733 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2734 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2735 associated -dbg packages.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2742 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2749 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2756 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2763 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2771 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2778 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2786 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2794 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2795 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2796 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2797 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2798 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2799 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2800 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2801 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2802 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2803 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2810 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2818 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2819 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2826 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2827 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2835 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2842 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2849 out section number. Closes: #204731
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2853 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2872 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2875 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2876 removal. Closes: #204286
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2880 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2883 renaming. Closes: #203548
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2890 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2891 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2895 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2907 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2913 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2916 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2917 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2918 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2922 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2925 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2926 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2946 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2954 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2961 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2963 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2964 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2968 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2971 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2979 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2991 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2998 it break hard links (see #188663).
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3005 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3015 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3019 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3020 debconf-mergetemplates
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3024 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3027 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3031 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3034 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3038 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3041 * Update debhelper(1).
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3045 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3048 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3049 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3050 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3051 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3052 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3056 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3059 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3060 the shell. Closes: #178524
3061 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3065 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3068 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3075 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3079 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3082 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3083 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3084 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3085 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3090 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3093 files from installation.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3097 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3100 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3101 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3105 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3108 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3112 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3115 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3119 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3125 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3131 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3135 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3136 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3138 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3142 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3145 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3146 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3147 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3148 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3152 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3155 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3159 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3162 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3163 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3167 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3171 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3176 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3186 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3187 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3188 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3193 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3196 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3197 practice. Closes: #163303
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3207 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3214 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3217 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3219 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3220 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3221 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3222 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3223 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3227 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3230 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3235 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3248 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3251 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3256 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3262 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3281 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3284 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3285 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3286 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3287 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3292 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3305 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3308 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3309 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3313 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3316 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3317 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3318 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3319 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3320 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3327 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3329 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3334 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3337 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3341 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3344 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3345 right thing. Closes: #150644
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3349 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Stupid, evil typo.
3352 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3356 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3363 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3366 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3367 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3372 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3381 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3385 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3388 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3389 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3394 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3397 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3410 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3411 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3415 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Removing perl warning message.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3427 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3430 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3431 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3432 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3433 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3434 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3435 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3436 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3437 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3441 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3447 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3454 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3457 debconf-mergetemplate.
3458 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3459 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3463 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3466 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3467 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3468 dh_install, which ...
3469 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3470 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3471 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3472 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3473 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3474 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3475 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3476 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3477 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3478 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3479 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3480 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3481 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3482 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3483 other minor changes.
3484 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3485 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3486 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3487 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3488 course there's -X ..)
3489 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3490 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3491 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3493 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3494 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3495 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3496 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3497 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3508 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3511 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3515 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3521 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3527 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3533 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3542 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3543 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3544 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3545 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3547 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3548 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3552 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3558 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3561 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3565 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3568 upset. Closes: #131322
3570 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3572 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3575 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3576 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3577 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3578 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3579 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3580 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3581 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3582 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3583 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3584 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3585 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3586 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3587 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3588 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3589 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3591 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3595 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3598 - Better indenting of generated code.
3599 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3603 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3607 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3608 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3609 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3610 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3611 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3612 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3613 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3617 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3620 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3624 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3627 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3628 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3629 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3630 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3631 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3632 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3633 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3634 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3635 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3636 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3637 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3638 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3639 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3640 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3641 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3646 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3652 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3655 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3656 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3660 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3663 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3664 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3674 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3677 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3678 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3679 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3680 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3681 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3686 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3692 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3695 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3699 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3702 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3707 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3713 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3716 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3726 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3730 Also some indentation fixes.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3734 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3737 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3738 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3739 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3740 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3741 Closes: #106514, #85520
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3745 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3751 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3757 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3763 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3769 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3775 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3778 change it in debhelper v4..
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3782 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3788 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3791 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3795 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3798 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3802 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3808 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3811 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3812 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3813 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3814 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3815 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3816 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3817 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3818 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3819 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3820 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3821 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3822 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3826 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3829 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3833 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3840 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3843 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3844 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3845 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3846 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3847 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3848 program those options go to. So, for example,
3849 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3850 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3851 something complex. Closes: #89311
3852 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3856 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3859 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3860 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3861 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3865 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3868 through loop. Closes: #98598
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3872 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Missing semi-colon.
3875 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3876 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3880 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3883 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3884 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3885 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3889 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3892 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3893 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3897 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3900 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3904 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3907 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3908 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3912 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3915 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3916 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3917 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3921 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3924 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3925 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3926 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3930 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3933 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3937 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3943 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3949 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3955 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3961 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3964 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3968 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3971 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3972 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3973 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3974 followed. Closes: #85483
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3978 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3980 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3981 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3982 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3986 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3989 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3990 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3991 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3992 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3993 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3994 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3995 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3996 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3997 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3998 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3999 Closes: #88464, #77743
4000 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4001 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4002 us to deal with that gracefully.
4003 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4005 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4006 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4007 a while, Closes: #51225
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4011 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4017 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4020 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4024 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4028 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4033 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4036 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4037 don't make packlist files.
4038 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4039 debhelper coding standards.
4040 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4041 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4045 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4048 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4052 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4055 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4056 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4057 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4058 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4059 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4060 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4061 but is mildly deprecated.
4062 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4063 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4064 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4065 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4066 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4067 switching to statoverrides..
4068 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4069 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4070 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4071 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4072 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4073 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4075 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4076 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4077 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4078 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4079 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4080 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4081 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4082 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4083 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4085 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4086 variable names, pod man pages).
4087 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4088 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4089 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4090 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4091 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4092 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4093 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4113 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4117 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4119 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4120 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4121 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4127 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4128 they were previously ignored.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4134 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4135 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4139 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4141 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4142 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4143 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4147 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4149 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4153 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4155 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4156 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4162 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4163 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4164 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4165 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4166 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4167 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4168 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4169 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4170 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4171 it is an obsolete program.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4175 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4177 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4185 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4191 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4195 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4197 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * typo: Closes, #78567
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4225 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4228 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4229 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4230 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4231 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4232 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4239 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4244 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4247 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4248 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4249 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4250 backwards-compatibility.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4257 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4258 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4259 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4260 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4261 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4262 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4264 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4265 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4266 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4268 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4270 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4271 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4272 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4273 should now be raised to severity important..
4274 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4275 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4282 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4287 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4305 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4312 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4315 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4316 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4317 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4318 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4331 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4332 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4333 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4334 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4335 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4336 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4344 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4357 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4365 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4366 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4367 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4368 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4376 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4379 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4382 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4383 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4386 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4388 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4389 the TODO entry about it.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4403 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4404 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4411 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4412 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4413 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4414 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4434 (this appears to be logal).
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4441 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4442 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4443 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4444 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4457 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4458 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4459 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4460 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4464 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4473 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4487 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4488 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4489 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4510 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4511 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4512 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4513 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4514 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4515 notice until v2 is complete.
4516 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4517 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4518 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4519 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4520 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4521 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4523 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4524 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4525 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4526 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4536 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4546 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4550 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4560 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4561 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4562 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4563 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4571 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4572 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4573 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4578 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4581 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4582 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4589 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4596 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4610 depend on the build and install targets.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4617 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4634 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4640 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4643 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4644 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4645 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4646 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4647 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4648 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4650 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4651 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4652 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4653 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4654 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4655 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4656 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4666 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4672 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4675 right place. Closes: #55065
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4679 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4686 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4689 * Copyright date updates.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4693 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4696 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4701 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4714 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4720 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4726 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4732 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4735 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4736 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4737 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4738 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4739 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4740 bits until all files have been registered.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4744 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installmanpages:
4747 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4748 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4749 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4750 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4751 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4752 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4753 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4754 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4755 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4756 otherwise change the result at all.
4758 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4759 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4760 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4761 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4762 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4767 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4773 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4776 act on files that don't exist.
4777 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4778 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4779 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4781 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4782 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4783 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4784 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4788 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4794 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4800 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4803 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4807 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4810 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4812 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4813 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4814 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4818 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4821 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4822 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4823 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4824 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4825 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4826 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4827 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4829 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4831 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4835 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4842 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4857 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4876 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4877 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4878 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4879 I made some changes, though:
4880 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4881 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4882 that is a clear violation of policy.
4883 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4884 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4885 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4886 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4887 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4888 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4889 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4890 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4891 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4893 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4897 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4906 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4913 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4914 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4932 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4935 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4936 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4937 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4938 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4939 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4940 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4941 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4955 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4956 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4960 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4969 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4973 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4976 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4977 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4983 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4992 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4999 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5000 for the dependancies to be generated.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5007 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5011 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5014 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5015 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5016 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5024 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5025 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5044 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5057 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5058 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5059 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5060 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5061 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5062 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5063 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5064 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5065 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5066 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5067 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5068 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5075 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5076 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5078 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5079 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5080 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5081 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5082 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5083 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5085 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5086 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5090 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5093 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5097 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5107 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5112 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5115 for building debhelper.
5116 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5130 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5137 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5138 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5139 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5140 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5141 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5142 it's always available.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5146 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5149 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5150 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5151 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5155 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5158 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5159 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5163 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5169 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5172 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5176 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5182 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5185 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5186 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5187 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5191 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5194 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5199 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5202 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5203 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5205 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5206 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5210 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5216 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5225 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5229 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5232 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5233 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5235 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5239 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5242 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5243 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5244 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5248 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5251 things if CDPATH is set.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5255 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5261 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5264 seems to make sense for the transition.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5268 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5271 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5276 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5279 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5280 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5284 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5287 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5291 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5294 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5295 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5296 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5297 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5301 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5307 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5310 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5311 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5312 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5313 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5314 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5315 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5316 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5317 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5318 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5319 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5327 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5328 * README: mention doc/v2
5329 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5330 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5336 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5337 be using this script RSN.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5344 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5345 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5346 more than 1 init script.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5353 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Changed perl version detection.
5360 * Changed call to find.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5367 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5369 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Really include dh_installpam.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5383 * Wrote man page for same.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5390 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5391 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5406 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5407 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5408 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5409 x bit was being set!
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5413 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5416 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5417 well. (Closes: 38900)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5424 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5425 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5429 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5435 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5448 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5451 help from Julian Gilbey.
5452 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5453 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5454 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5455 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5456 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5457 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5458 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5482 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5488 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5491 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5495 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5498 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5505 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5515 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5518 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5522 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5528 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5534 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5537 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5538 may be deleted. (#35845)
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Various man page enhancements.
5545 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5550 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5553 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5554 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5558 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5561 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5562 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5563 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5565 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5566 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Another very minor typo fix.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Very minor typo fix.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5592 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5593 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5603 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5606 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5607 variables properly (#34850).
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5617 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5620 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5621 (automatically generated by build process).
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5627 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5631 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5634 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5635 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5637 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5644 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * README: minor typo fix.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5657 leave it at that. :-)
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5676 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5677 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5678 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5682 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5685 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5692 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5699 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5700 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5701 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5702 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5709 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5710 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5711 Craig Small for spotting this.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5715 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5718 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5719 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5732 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5736 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5738 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5739 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5740 working on the last version of debhelper.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5747 being made. (#23255)
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5760 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5767 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5768 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5769 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5770 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5777 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5778 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5779 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5780 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5782 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5783 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5785 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5805 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5806 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5807 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5808 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5809 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5810 suidregister actually supports it.
5811 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5812 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5816 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5823 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5826 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5827 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5828 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5829 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5830 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5831 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5832 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5836 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5838 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5839 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5843 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5846 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5847 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5848 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5849 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5853 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5856 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5858 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5859 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5860 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5861 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5862 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5863 effect, either. (#30118)
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5867 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5873 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5876 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5877 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5881 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5890 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5891 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5892 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5893 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5900 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5901 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5914 packages, painlessly.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5918 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5924 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5930 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5936 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * The perl conversion is complete.
5940 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5942 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5943 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5944 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5949 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5952 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5953 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5954 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5958 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5961 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5963 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5965 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5966 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5973 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5974 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5978 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5984 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5987 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5988 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5989 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5990 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5991 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5995 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5998 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5999 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6000 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6001 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6005 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6008 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6012 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6015 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6016 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6017 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6018 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6019 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6020 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6021 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6022 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6026 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6032 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6035 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6036 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6037 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6042 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6045 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6049 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6052 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6056 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6059 sections of shared libraries.
6060 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6061 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6062 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6063 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6064 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6065 things you don't want them to.
6066 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6067 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6071 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6074 shared libraries. (#26414)
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6078 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6080 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6081 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6082 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6083 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6087 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6091 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6093 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6094 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6095 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6096 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6097 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6101 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6104 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6108 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6111 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6112 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6117 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6120 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6124 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6127 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6128 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6129 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6130 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6131 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6133 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6134 remove debian/files properly.
6135 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6136 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6137 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6138 * Removed bogus menu file.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6142 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6145 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6149 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6152 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6153 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6154 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6155 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6156 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6157 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6161 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6164 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6165 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6166 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6167 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6171 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6178 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6181 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6182 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6184 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6185 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6186 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6187 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6188 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6189 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6193 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6196 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6197 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6198 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6199 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6200 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6201 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6202 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6203 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6204 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6205 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6206 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6207 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6208 passed any switches.
6209 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6213 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6216 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6217 at all for a long while.
6218 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6219 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6220 large chunks in the process.
6221 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6222 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6223 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6228 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6231 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6233 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6238 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6241 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6242 that don't always have the same files in them.
6243 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6244 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6245 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6249 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6253 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6254 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6255 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6256 updating 27 man pages.
6257 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6258 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6259 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6260 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6261 programs act on. (#25247)
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6265 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6269 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6270 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6271 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6272 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6273 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6274 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6279 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6286 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6293 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6296 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6300 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6306 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6309 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6310 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6311 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6312 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6313 package by accident.
6314 * Is version 1.0 next?
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6318 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6321 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6322 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6326 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6329 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6330 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6331 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6332 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6333 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6335 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6340 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6343 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6344 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6348 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6351 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6355 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6358 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6359 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6364 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6370 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6373 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6374 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6379 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6385 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6388 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6389 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6390 past week. Thanks, guys!
6392 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6393 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6394 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6395 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6396 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6397 would do in the same situation.
6398 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6399 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6401 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6403 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6404 permissions changed.
6405 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6406 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6407 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6408 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6409 files are treated identically.
6410 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6411 * Minor man page fixes.
6412 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6413 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6414 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6418 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6421 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6422 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6423 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6424 use -X multiple times, too.
6425 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6426 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6430 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6433 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6434 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6438 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6441 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6445 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6448 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6449 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6450 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6451 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6452 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6453 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6454 shape if you're starting a new package.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6458 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6461 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6465 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6468 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6469 because of missing symlinks.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6473 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6479 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6482 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6483 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6484 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6485 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6486 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6488 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6489 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6493 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6495 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6496 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6497 to be changed after the fact :-)
6498 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6502 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6504 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6505 no version string after the -V.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6509 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6511 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6512 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6520 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6524 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6527 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6528 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6529 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6530 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6531 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6532 I always welcome corrections!
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6536 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6542 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6545 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6546 * Documented this new switch.
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6550 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6553 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6554 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6555 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6556 no packages use the old behavior.
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6560 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6563 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6564 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6568 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6571 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6575 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6581 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6584 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6588 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6591 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6592 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6593 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6597 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6603 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6606 into the source package by accident.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6610 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6613 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6614 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6615 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6616 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6617 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6618 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6623 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6627 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6628 inspired to implement some of it.
6629 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6633 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6636 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6640 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6643 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6644 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6648 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6651 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6652 have done.) (#17598)
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6656 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6658 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6662 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6664 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6671 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6678 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6679 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6683 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6686 argument processor in perl.
6687 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6688 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6689 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6690 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6694 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6697 type directories. (#16933)
6698 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6699 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6700 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6701 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6702 are supported. (#16935)
6703 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6708 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6711 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6715 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6717 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6719 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6720 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6721 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6722 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6723 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6724 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6728 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6730 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6731 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6732 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6734 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6735 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6736 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6737 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6738 a given package, or -i or -a.
6739 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6740 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6741 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6742 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6743 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6744 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6745 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6746 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6747 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6749 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6750 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6751 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6755 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6758 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6759 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6764 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6767 does not have a section.
6769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6771 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6773 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6774 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6775 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6776 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6780 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * Fixed typo #16215.
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6786 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6789 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6790 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6791 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6792 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6793 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6798 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6801 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6802 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6803 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6808 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6810 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6814 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6816 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6820 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6823 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6824 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6825 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6826 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6827 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6828 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6832 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6834 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6838 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6841 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6845 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6848 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6849 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6850 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6854 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6857 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6861 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6867 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6870 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6877 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6881 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6887 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6889 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6890 postinst, postrm, etc.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6894 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6896 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6903 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6904 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6905 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6906 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6907 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6914 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6915 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6919 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6921 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6922 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6926 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6928 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6929 installing package files into.
6930 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6935 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6937 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6939 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6943 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6945 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6949 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6951 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6952 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6956 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6958 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6959 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6960 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6961 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6962 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6966 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6968 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6969 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6970 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6971 multiple binary packages.
6972 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6973 should rebuild them with this version.
6974 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6978 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6980 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6981 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6985 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6987 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6988 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6992 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6994 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6995 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6996 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6997 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6998 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6999 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7000 debian/README.debian.
7001 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7002 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7003 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7004 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7005 in a few situations.)
7007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7009 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7011 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7015 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7017 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7021 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7023 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7024 * Fixed several man pages.
7026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7028 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7030 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7031 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7032 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7036 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7039 is ready for general use.
7040 * Added man pages for all commands.
7041 * Multiple binary package support.
7042 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7043 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7044 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7046 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7047 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7048 auto-installed as parameters.
7049 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7051 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7054 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7055 the package build directory it is to act on.
7056 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7057 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7058 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7062 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7064 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7065 ready to replace debstd.
7067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400