1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
28 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
30 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
31 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
33 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
34 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
37 * update french translation.
38 * Fix french misspelling.
39 * French translation update after massive man page typography
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
43 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
49 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
53 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
55 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
59 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
61 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
62 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
63 introduced by the fix to #527990.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
67 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
70 changes are planned for that mode.
71 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
72 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
73 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
74 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
75 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
76 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
77 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
78 (genesis) still uses them.
79 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
80 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
81 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
82 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
83 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
84 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
85 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
86 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
87 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
88 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
89 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
90 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
91 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
92 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
93 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
94 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
95 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
96 commands. (See #570039)
97 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
99 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
104 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
108 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
109 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
110 in control file or debhelper config files.
111 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
115 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
118 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
119 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
123 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
126 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
130 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
133 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
134 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
138 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Updated French translation.
141 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
142 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
143 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
144 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
146 * Typo. Closes: #571968
147 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
148 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
149 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
150 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
151 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
152 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
153 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
154 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
155 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
157 * dh: Improve documentation.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
161 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
163 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
164 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
165 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
169 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
172 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
176 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
179 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
183 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
186 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
187 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
188 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
189 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
190 options that they do not support.
191 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
192 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
193 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
194 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
195 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
196 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
201 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
205 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
206 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
207 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
208 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
209 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
210 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
211 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
212 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
213 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
217 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
220 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
221 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
222 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
223 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
227 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Typo. Closes: #558654
230 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
231 installed. Closes: #558782
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
238 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
239 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
240 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
241 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
242 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
246 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
248 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
249 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
250 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
251 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
255 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
258 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
259 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
263 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
265 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
269 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
271 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
272 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
273 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
274 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
275 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
276 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
277 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
278 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
279 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
280 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
281 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
282 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
283 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
284 time soon.) Closes: #554509
285 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
287 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
288 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
289 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
290 document id. Closes: #555677
291 * Typo. Closes: #555659
292 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
293 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
294 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
295 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
297 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
298 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
299 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
304 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
307 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
308 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
309 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
310 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
311 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
312 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
313 translation (#494300 part 2)
316 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
318 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
319 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
320 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
321 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
322 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
326 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
329 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
330 (It was only run once due to logging.)
331 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
332 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
333 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
334 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
335 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
336 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
337 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
338 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
339 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
340 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
344 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
348 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
351 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
352 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
356 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
359 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
360 flag with arch all/any packages.
361 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
362 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
363 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
364 situation. Closes: #540794
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
368 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
372 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
373 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
374 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
375 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
376 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
379 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
380 the default. Closes: #538201
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
385 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
389 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
390 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
391 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
392 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
393 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
395 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
396 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
397 * Above Closes: #491117
398 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
403 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
409 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
410 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
411 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
415 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
418 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
419 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
420 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
421 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
422 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
427 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
430 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
431 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
435 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
437 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
441 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
443 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
444 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
446 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
447 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
448 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
452 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
454 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
455 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
459 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
465 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
467 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
468 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
469 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
474 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
476 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
480 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
483 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
484 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
485 created by using `python' first during build and install.
487 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
492 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
494 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
498 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
500 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
501 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
505 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
507 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
511 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
513 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
517 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
519 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
520 contributed by Modestas Vainius
521 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
522 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
523 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
524 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
525 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
526 that support it. Closes: #480577
527 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
528 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
529 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
531 - Adds support for cmake.
532 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
533 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
535 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
537 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
538 that use them. The options are:
539 --sourcedir, --destdir
540 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
541 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
542 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
543 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
544 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
548 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
554 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
557 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
558 default. Closes: #537140
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
562 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
565 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
566 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
570 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
573 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
580 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
584 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
587 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
589 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
590 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
591 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
595 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
598 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
599 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
600 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
604 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
607 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
608 warning or deprecation message.
609 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
610 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
611 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
612 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
613 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
614 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
615 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
616 Closes: #534639, #357434
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
626 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
629 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
630 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
631 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
632 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
634 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
635 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
636 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
640 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
646 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
653 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
656 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
664 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
665 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
667 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
668 file support. Closes: #494914
669 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
673 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
676 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
677 parameters. Closes: #527256
678 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
679 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
680 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
684 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
688 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
689 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
690 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
694 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
697 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
698 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
699 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
703 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
706 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
707 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
709 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
710 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
711 by triggers). Closes: #521181
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
715 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
719 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
723 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
726 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
727 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
728 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
729 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
734 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
743 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
744 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
745 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
746 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
747 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
749 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
750 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
751 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
752 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
753 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
754 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
758 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
761 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
762 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
763 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
764 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
765 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
767 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
771 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
773 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
777 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
779 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
780 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
781 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
782 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
783 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
784 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
785 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
786 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
787 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
788 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
789 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
793 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
795 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
796 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
798 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
799 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
800 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
801 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
803 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
804 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
808 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
810 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
811 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
812 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
813 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
814 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
815 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
816 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
818 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
819 that uses them. Affected options are:
820 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
821 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
822 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
823 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
824 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
825 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
826 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
827 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
828 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
829 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
830 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
831 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
842 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
848 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
850 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
851 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
853 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
854 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
855 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
856 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
857 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
859 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
861 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
862 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
863 rules (see bug #509756).
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
867 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
873 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
874 * Typo. Closes: #493062
875 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
876 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
880 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
883 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
884 empty files. Closes: #490937
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
894 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
904 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
905 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
906 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
907 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
912 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
914 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
915 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
916 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
917 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
921 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
924 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
925 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
926 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
927 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
928 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
932 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
939 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
941 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
942 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
943 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
944 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
945 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
946 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
947 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
948 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
949 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
950 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
954 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
957 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
958 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
959 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
960 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
962 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
963 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
964 breaking backwards compatibility.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
968 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
971 message in perl 5.10.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
975 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Convert copyright file to new format.
984 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
991 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
995 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
998 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
999 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1000 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1001 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1002 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1003 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1004 logging by dh_listpackages.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1011 run and there are no packages of that type.
1012 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1013 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1014 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1015 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1017 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1018 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1025 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1026 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1030 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1033 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1034 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1036 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1037 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1038 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1039 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1040 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1041 planned but not yet implemented.)
1042 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1043 if the Makefile has such a target.
1044 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1045 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1046 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1047 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1048 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1049 but not yet implemented.)
1050 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1051 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1052 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1053 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1054 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1056 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1058 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1059 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1061 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1062 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1063 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1068 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1071 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1072 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1076 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1078 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1079 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1080 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1084 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1090 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1096 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1099 just those installed by the program.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1103 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1106 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1107 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1111 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1114 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1115 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1116 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1117 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1121 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1124 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1125 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1129 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1132 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1133 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1137 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1140 with policy. Closes: #461392
1141 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1142 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1143 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1144 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1145 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1149 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1152 Closes: #460340, #460351
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1156 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1159 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1160 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1161 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1162 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1166 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1170 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1171 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1172 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1173 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1174 package build directory won't work.
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1176 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1177 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1178 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1179 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1180 mode. Closes: #459426
1181 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1189 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1193 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1197 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1198 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1199 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1200 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1201 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1202 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1206 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1209 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1210 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1211 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1212 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1216 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1219 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1220 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1221 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1222 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1223 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1227 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1230 debian/package.triggers files.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1234 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1237 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1241 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1244 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1245 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1246 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1247 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1252 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1255 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1259 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1262 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1263 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1265 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1270 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1274 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1275 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1276 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1280 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1287 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1294 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1297 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1299 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1300 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1301 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1303 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1304 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1305 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1309 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1312 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1313 * Update urls to web page.
1314 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1315 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1316 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1317 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1324 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1325 - typo in alternatives call
1326 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1328 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1329 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1333 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1336 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1341 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1347 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1353 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1356 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1358 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1359 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1360 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1361 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1362 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1363 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1364 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1365 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1366 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1367 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1368 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1372 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1375 package install. Closes: #415717
1376 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1377 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1378 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1379 script and then remove the python files.
1380 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1381 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1382 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1383 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1384 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1385 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1386 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1387 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1388 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1389 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1390 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1391 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1392 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1396 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Correct typo in french translation
1402 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1403 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1405 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1407 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1408 Closes: #406921, #381940
1409 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1411 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1412 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1413 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1414 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1415 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1416 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1417 specified). Closes: #381851
1418 * Misc minor changes.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1429 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1430 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1434 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1440 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1441 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1444 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1445 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1447 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1448 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1449 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1450 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1454 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1457 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1460 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1464 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1470 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1476 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1477 a difficult situation.
1478 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1479 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1480 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1481 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1482 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1483 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1484 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1485 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1486 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1487 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1491 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Non-maintainer upload.
1494 * Update of dh_python
1495 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1496 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1498 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1499 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1500 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1501 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1502 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1504 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1506 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Non-maintainer upload.
1509 * Update of dh_python
1510 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1511 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1512 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1513 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1514 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1515 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1516 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1517 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1518 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1519 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1521 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1522 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1523 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1524 the not too-distant future).
1525 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1526 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1527 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1528 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1529 thus made the build fail.
1531 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1533 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Non-maintainer upload.
1536 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1538 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1540 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1543 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1544 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1545 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1546 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1547 package. Closes: #301424
1548 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1549 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1550 fonts). Closes: #372686
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1560 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1561 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1562 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1563 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1564 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1565 above, but already depends on that.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1572 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1573 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1574 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1575 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1576 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1580 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1586 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1592 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1593 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1597 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1600 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1604 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1608 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1609 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1610 new version (0.24.1).
1611 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1612 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1615 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1616 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1617 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1618 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1619 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1620 new directory on their own.
1621 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1622 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1626 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1629 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1630 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1631 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1632 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1636 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1639 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1640 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1641 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1642 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1643 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1647 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1653 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1657 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1658 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1662 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1663 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1669 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1670 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1672 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1673 ignored. Closes: #337664
1675 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1680 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1686 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1691 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1692 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1693 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1694 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1695 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1696 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1697 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1701 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1704 version. Closes: #350607
1705 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1706 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1707 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1708 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1712 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1715 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1716 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1717 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1721 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1728 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1737 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1744 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1745 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1746 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1747 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1748 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1749 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1756 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1757 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1762 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1765 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1772 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1779 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1780 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1781 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1782 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1783 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1784 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1788 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1792 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1793 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1794 link. Closes: #346405
1795 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1797 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1798 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1799 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1800 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1801 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1802 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1803 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1814 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1820 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1823 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1830 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1835 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1839 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1840 installed. Closes: #342033
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1844 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1847 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1848 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1849 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1860 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1866 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1870 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1871 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1872 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1876 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1879 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1891 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1897 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1900 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1901 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1902 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1903 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1904 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1905 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1906 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1908 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1912 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1915 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1916 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1923 in standard man dirs.
1924 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1937 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1956 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1959 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1960 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1967 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1968 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1969 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1971 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1973 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1988 mode. Closes: #324161
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1995 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1996 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1997 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1998 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2006 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2007 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2008 is necesary for sanity.
2009 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2010 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2017 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2018 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2025 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2038 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2039 released, so use at your own risk.
2040 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2041 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2043 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2044 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2045 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2046 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2047 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2048 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2049 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2050 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2051 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2052 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2053 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2054 including twice per config file line now..
2055 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2056 and simplfy the rules file.
2057 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2058 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2059 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2061 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2062 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2069 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2076 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2083 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2090 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2091 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2092 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2093 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2094 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2095 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2102 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2103 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2104 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2112 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2113 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2121 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2122 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2123 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2131 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2132 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2133 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2137 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2153 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2154 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2155 unknown. Closes: #282924
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2159 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2166 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Spanish man page updates.
2169 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2183 * dh_desktop: reindent
2184 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2185 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2197 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2203 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2207 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2210 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2211 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2215 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2237 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2241 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2244 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2245 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2246 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2247 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2248 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2249 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2251 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2252 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2253 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2254 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2255 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2256 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2257 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2258 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2259 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2260 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2261 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2262 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2263 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2264 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2265 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2266 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2280 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2284 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2287 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2294 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2301 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2317 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2323 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2326 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2327 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2328 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2335 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2342 but occasionally right and necessary.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2349 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2350 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2351 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2352 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2353 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2360 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2362 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2363 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2364 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2365 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2366 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2367 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2368 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2369 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2370 postinst scripts for udebs.
2371 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2378 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2380 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2381 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2385 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2405 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2408 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2415 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2422 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2425 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2426 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2430 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2436 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2439 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2446 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2447 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2448 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2450 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2452 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2453 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2454 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2458 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2461 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2466 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2469 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2470 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2471 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2476 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2482 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2491 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2492 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2493 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2494 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2495 associated -dbg packages.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2502 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2509 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2516 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2523 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2531 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2538 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2546 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2554 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2555 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2556 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2557 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2558 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2559 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2560 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2561 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2562 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2563 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2570 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2578 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2579 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2586 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2587 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2595 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2602 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2609 out section number. Closes: #204731
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2635 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2636 removal. Closes: #204286
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2643 renaming. Closes: #203548
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2650 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2651 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2667 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2673 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2676 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2677 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2678 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2685 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2686 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2706 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2714 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2721 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2723 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2724 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2731 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2739 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2751 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2758 it break hard links (see #188663).
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2765 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2779 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2780 debconf-mergetemplates
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2784 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2787 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2794 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2801 * Update debhelper(1).
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2808 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2809 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2810 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2811 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2812 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2816 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2819 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2820 the shell. Closes: #178524
2821 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2828 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2835 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2842 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2843 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2844 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2845 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2850 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2853 files from installation.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2857 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2860 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2861 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2865 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2868 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2872 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2875 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2895 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2896 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2898 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2902 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2905 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2906 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2907 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2908 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2915 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2919 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2922 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2923 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2927 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2931 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2946 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2947 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2948 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2956 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2957 practice. Closes: #163303
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2977 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2979 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2980 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2981 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2982 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2983 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2990 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3011 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3028 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3044 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3045 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3046 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3047 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3052 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3068 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3069 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3076 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3077 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3078 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3079 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3080 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3087 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3089 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3097 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3104 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3105 right thing. Closes: #150644
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Stupid, evil typo.
3112 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3126 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3127 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3141 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3148 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3149 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3157 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3170 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3171 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Removing perl warning message.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3190 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3191 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3192 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3193 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3194 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3195 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3196 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3197 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3207 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3214 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3217 debconf-mergetemplate.
3218 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3219 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3223 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3226 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3227 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3228 dh_install, which ...
3229 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3230 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3231 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3232 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3233 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3234 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3235 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3236 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3237 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3238 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3239 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3240 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3241 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3242 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3243 other minor changes.
3244 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3245 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3246 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3247 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3248 course there's -X ..)
3249 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3250 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3251 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3253 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3254 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3255 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3256 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3257 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3262 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3271 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3275 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3281 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3287 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3293 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3299 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3302 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3303 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3304 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3305 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3307 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3308 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3312 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3318 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3321 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3325 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3328 upset. Closes: #131322
3330 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3332 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3335 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3336 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3337 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3338 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3339 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3340 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3341 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3342 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3343 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3344 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3345 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3346 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3347 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3348 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3349 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3351 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3355 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3358 - Better indenting of generated code.
3359 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3363 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3367 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3368 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3369 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3370 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3371 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3372 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3373 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3377 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3380 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3384 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3387 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3388 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3389 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3390 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3391 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3392 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3393 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3394 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3395 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3396 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3397 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3398 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3399 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3400 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3401 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3406 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3412 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3415 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3416 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3420 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3423 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3424 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3428 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3437 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3438 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3439 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3440 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3441 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3446 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3452 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3455 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3459 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3462 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3467 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3476 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3480 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3490 Also some indentation fixes.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3494 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3497 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3498 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3499 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3500 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3501 Closes: #106514, #85520
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3505 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3511 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3517 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3529 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3535 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3538 change it in debhelper v4..
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3542 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3548 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3551 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3558 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3562 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3571 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3572 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3573 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3574 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3575 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3576 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3577 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3578 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3579 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3580 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3581 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3582 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3586 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3589 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3593 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3600 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3603 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3604 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3605 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3606 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3607 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3608 program those options go to. So, for example,
3609 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3610 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3611 something complex. Closes: #89311
3612 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3616 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3619 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3620 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3621 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3628 through loop. Closes: #98598
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Missing semi-colon.
3635 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3636 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3640 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3643 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3644 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3645 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3649 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3652 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3653 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3660 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3667 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3668 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3672 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3675 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3676 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3677 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3681 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3684 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3685 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3686 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3690 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3693 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3697 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3703 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3709 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3715 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3721 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3724 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3728 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3731 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3732 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3733 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3734 followed. Closes: #85483
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3738 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3740 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3741 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3742 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3746 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3749 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3750 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3751 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3752 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3753 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3754 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3755 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3756 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3757 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3758 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3759 Closes: #88464, #77743
3760 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3761 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3762 us to deal with that gracefully.
3763 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3765 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3766 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3767 a while, Closes: #51225
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3771 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3777 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3780 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3784 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3788 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3793 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3796 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3797 don't make packlist files.
3798 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3799 debhelper coding standards.
3800 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3801 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3805 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3808 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3812 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3815 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3816 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3817 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3818 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3819 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3820 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3821 but is mildly deprecated.
3822 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3823 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3824 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3825 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3826 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3827 switching to statoverrides..
3828 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3829 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3830 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3831 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3832 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3833 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3835 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3836 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3837 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3838 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3839 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3840 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3841 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3842 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3843 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3845 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3846 variable names, pod man pages).
3847 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3848 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3849 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3850 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3851 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3852 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3853 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3873 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3879 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3880 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3881 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3887 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3888 they were previously ignored.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3894 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3895 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3901 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3902 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3903 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3909 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3915 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3916 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3922 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3923 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3924 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3925 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3926 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3927 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3928 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3929 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3930 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3931 it is an obsolete program.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3937 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3945 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3951 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3955 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3957 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * typo: Closes, #78567
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3988 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3989 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3990 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3991 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3992 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3999 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4004 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4007 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4008 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4009 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4010 backwards-compatibility.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4014 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4017 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4018 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4019 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4020 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4021 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4022 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4024 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4025 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4026 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4028 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4030 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4031 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4032 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4033 should now be raised to severity important..
4034 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4035 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4042 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4059 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4075 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4076 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4077 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4078 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4091 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4092 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4093 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4094 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4095 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4096 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4104 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4117 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4125 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4126 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4127 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4128 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4136 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4139 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4142 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4143 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4146 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4148 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4149 the TODO entry about it.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4163 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4164 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4171 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4172 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4173 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4174 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4194 (this appears to be logal).
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4201 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4202 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4203 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4204 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4208 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4214 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4217 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4218 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4219 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4220 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4233 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4247 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4248 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4249 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4270 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4271 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4272 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4273 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4274 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4275 notice until v2 is complete.
4276 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4277 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4278 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4279 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4280 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4281 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4283 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4284 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4285 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4286 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4306 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4320 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4321 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4322 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4323 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4331 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4332 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4333 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4341 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4342 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4349 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4356 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4370 depend on the build and install targets.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4377 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4388 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4403 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4404 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4405 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4406 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4407 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4408 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4410 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4411 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4412 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4413 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4414 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4415 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4416 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4426 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4435 right place. Closes: #55065
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4439 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4446 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4449 * Copyright date updates.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4456 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4461 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4486 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4492 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4495 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4496 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4497 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4498 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4499 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4500 bits until all files have been registered.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_installmanpages:
4507 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4508 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4509 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4510 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4511 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4512 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4513 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4514 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4515 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4516 otherwise change the result at all.
4518 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4519 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4520 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4521 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4522 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4536 act on files that don't exist.
4537 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4538 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4539 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4541 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4542 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4543 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4544 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4554 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4560 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4563 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4570 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4572 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4573 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4574 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4578 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4581 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4582 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4583 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4584 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4585 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4586 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4587 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4589 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4591 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4595 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4602 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4617 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4636 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4637 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4638 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4639 I made some changes, though:
4640 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4641 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4642 that is a clear violation of policy.
4643 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4644 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4645 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4646 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4647 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4648 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4649 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4650 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4651 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4653 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4666 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4673 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4674 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4695 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4696 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4697 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4698 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4699 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4700 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4701 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4715 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4716 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4729 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4736 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4737 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4743 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4748 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4752 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4759 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4760 for the dependancies to be generated.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4767 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4771 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4774 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4775 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4776 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4784 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4785 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4804 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4817 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4818 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4819 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4820 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4821 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4822 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4823 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4824 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4825 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4826 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4827 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4828 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4835 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4836 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4838 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4839 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4840 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4841 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4842 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4843 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4845 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4846 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4850 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4853 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4867 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4875 for building debhelper.
4876 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4880 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4887 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4890 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4897 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4898 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4899 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4900 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4901 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4902 it's always available.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4909 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4910 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4911 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4918 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4919 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4932 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4945 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4946 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4947 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4954 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4962 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4963 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4965 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4966 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4985 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4992 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4993 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4995 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4999 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5002 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5003 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5004 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5011 things if CDPATH is set.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5024 seems to make sense for the transition.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5031 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5036 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5039 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5040 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5047 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5051 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5054 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5055 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5056 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5057 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5067 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5070 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5071 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5072 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5073 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5074 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5075 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5076 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5077 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5078 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5079 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5087 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5088 * README: mention doc/v2
5089 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5090 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5096 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5097 be using this script RSN.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5104 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5105 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5106 more than 1 init script.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5113 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Changed perl version detection.
5120 * Changed call to find.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5127 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5129 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * Really include dh_installpam.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5143 * Wrote man page for same.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5150 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5151 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5166 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5167 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5168 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5169 x bit was being set!
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5176 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5177 well. (Closes: 38900)
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5184 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5185 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5211 help from Julian Gilbey.
5212 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5213 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5214 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5215 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5216 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5217 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5218 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5251 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5258 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5265 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5278 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5288 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5297 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5298 may be deleted. (#35845)
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * Various man page enhancements.
5305 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5310 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5313 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5314 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5321 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5322 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5323 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5325 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5326 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * Another very minor typo fix.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * Very minor typo fix.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5352 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5353 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5366 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5367 variables properly (#34850).
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5377 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5380 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5381 (automatically generated by build process).
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5385 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5387 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5394 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5395 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5397 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5404 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5408 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * README: minor typo fix.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5417 leave it at that. :-)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5436 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5437 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5438 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5445 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5452 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5459 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5460 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5461 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5462 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5469 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5470 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5471 Craig Small for spotting this.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5478 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5479 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5492 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5498 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5499 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5500 working on the last version of debhelper.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5507 being made. (#23255)
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5511 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5520 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5527 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5528 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5529 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5530 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5537 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5538 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5539 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5540 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5542 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5543 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5545 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5565 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5566 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5567 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5568 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5569 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5570 suidregister actually supports it.
5571 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5572 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5576 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5583 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5586 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5587 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5588 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5589 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5590 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5591 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5592 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5596 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5598 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5599 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5603 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5606 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5607 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5608 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5609 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5613 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5616 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5618 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5619 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5620 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5621 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5622 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5623 effect, either. (#30118)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5636 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5637 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5650 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5651 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5652 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5653 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5660 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5661 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5665 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5674 packages, painlessly.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * The perl conversion is complete.
5700 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5702 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5703 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5704 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5709 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5712 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5713 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5714 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5721 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5723 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5725 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5726 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5730 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5733 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5734 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5747 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5748 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5749 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5750 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5751 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5758 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5759 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5760 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5761 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5768 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5772 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5775 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5776 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5777 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5778 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5779 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5780 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5781 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5782 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5786 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5792 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5795 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5796 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5797 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5802 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5805 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5809 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5812 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5816 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5819 sections of shared libraries.
5820 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5821 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5822 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5823 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5824 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5825 things you don't want them to.
5826 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5827 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5831 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5834 shared libraries. (#26414)
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5838 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5840 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5841 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5842 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5843 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5847 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5851 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5853 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5854 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5855 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5856 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5857 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5861 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5864 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5868 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5871 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5872 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5877 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5880 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5884 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5887 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5888 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5889 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5890 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5891 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5893 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5894 remove debian/files properly.
5895 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5896 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5897 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5898 * Removed bogus menu file.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5905 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5909 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5912 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5913 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5914 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5915 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5916 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5917 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5924 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5925 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5926 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5927 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5931 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5938 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5941 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5942 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5944 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5945 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5946 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5947 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5948 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5949 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5953 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5956 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5957 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5958 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5959 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5960 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5961 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5962 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5963 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5964 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5965 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5966 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5967 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5968 passed any switches.
5969 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5973 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5976 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5977 at all for a long while.
5978 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5979 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5980 large chunks in the process.
5981 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5982 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5983 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5988 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5991 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5993 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5998 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6001 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6002 that don't always have the same files in them.
6003 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6004 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6005 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6009 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6013 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6014 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6015 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6016 updating 27 man pages.
6017 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6018 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6019 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6020 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6021 programs act on. (#25247)
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6025 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6029 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6030 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6031 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6032 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6033 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6034 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6053 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6056 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6060 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6066 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6069 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6070 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6071 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6072 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6073 package by accident.
6074 * Is version 1.0 next?
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6078 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6081 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6086 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6089 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6090 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6091 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6092 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6093 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6095 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6100 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6103 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6104 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6108 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6111 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6115 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6118 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6119 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6124 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6130 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6133 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6134 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6139 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6145 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6148 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6149 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6150 past week. Thanks, guys!
6152 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6153 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6154 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6155 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6156 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6157 would do in the same situation.
6158 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6159 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6161 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6163 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6164 permissions changed.
6165 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6166 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6167 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6168 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6169 files are treated identically.
6170 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6171 * Minor man page fixes.
6172 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6173 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6174 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6178 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6181 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6182 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6183 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6184 use -X multiple times, too.
6185 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6186 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6190 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6193 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6194 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6201 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6205 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6208 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6209 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6210 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6211 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6212 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6213 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6214 shape if you're starting a new package.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6218 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6221 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6225 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6228 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6229 because of missing symlinks.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6233 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6239 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6242 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6243 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6244 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6245 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6246 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6248 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6249 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6253 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6255 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6256 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6257 to be changed after the fact :-)
6258 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6262 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6264 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6265 no version string after the -V.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6269 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6271 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6272 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6277 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6280 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6284 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6287 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6288 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6289 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6290 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6291 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6292 I always welcome corrections!
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6296 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6302 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6305 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6306 * Documented this new switch.
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6310 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6313 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6314 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6315 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6316 no packages use the old behavior.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6320 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6323 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6324 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6328 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6331 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6335 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6341 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6344 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6351 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6352 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6353 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6357 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6359 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6363 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6366 into the source package by accident.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6370 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6373 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6374 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6375 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6376 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6377 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6378 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6383 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6387 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6388 inspired to implement some of it.
6389 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6393 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6396 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6400 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6403 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6404 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6408 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6411 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6412 have done.) (#17598)
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6416 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6422 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6428 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6431 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6438 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6439 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6446 argument processor in perl.
6447 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6448 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6449 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6450 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6454 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6457 type directories. (#16933)
6458 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6459 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6460 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6461 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6462 are supported. (#16935)
6463 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6468 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6471 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6475 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6477 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6479 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6480 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6481 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6482 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6483 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6484 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6491 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6492 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6494 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6495 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6496 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6497 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6498 a given package, or -i or -a.
6499 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6500 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6501 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6502 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6503 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6504 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6505 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6506 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6507 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6509 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6510 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6511 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6518 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6519 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6524 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6527 does not have a section.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6534 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6535 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6536 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * Fixed typo #16215.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6546 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6549 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6550 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6551 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6552 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6553 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6561 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6562 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6563 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6574 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6583 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6584 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6585 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6586 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6587 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6588 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6592 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6598 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6601 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6605 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6608 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6609 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6610 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6617 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6621 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6630 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6634 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6637 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6641 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6650 postinst, postrm, etc.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6663 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6664 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6665 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6666 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6667 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6671 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6674 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6675 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6679 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6682 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6686 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6689 installing package files into.
6690 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6695 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6699 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6703 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6709 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6711 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6712 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6716 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6718 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6719 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6720 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6721 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6722 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6726 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6728 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6729 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6730 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6731 multiple binary packages.
6732 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6733 should rebuild them with this version.
6734 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6738 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6741 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6745 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6748 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6752 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6755 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6756 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6757 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6758 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6759 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6760 debian/README.debian.
6761 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6762 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6763 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6764 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6765 in a few situations.)
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6769 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6775 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6781 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6784 * Fixed several man pages.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6788 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6791 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6792 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6796 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6799 is ready for general use.
6800 * Added man pages for all commands.
6801 * Multiple binary package support.
6802 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6803 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6804 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6806 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6807 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6808 auto-installed as parameters.
6809 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6811 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6814 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6815 the package build directory it is to act on.
6816 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6817 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6818 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6822 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6824 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6825 ready to replace debstd.
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400