1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
5 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
6 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
7 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
8 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
9 the targets. Closes: #629139
11 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
12 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
13 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
14 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
15 are already set to other values will not be changed.
17 * Also, support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt, by changing -O2 to -O0
18 in any variables listed by dpkg-buildflags.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
22 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
28 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
31 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
32 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
36 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
39 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
40 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
41 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
42 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
43 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
44 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
45 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
50 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
54 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
55 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
57 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
58 changes may be added to that mode.
59 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
60 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
61 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
62 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
63 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
64 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
65 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
66 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
67 * Removed old example rules files.
68 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
72 * update french translation.
73 * Fix french misspelling.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
77 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
80 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
84 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
87 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
89 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
90 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
91 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
92 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
93 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
97 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
100 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
101 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
102 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
103 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
104 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
105 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
107 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
108 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
109 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
110 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
111 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
112 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
113 (Thanks, David Prévot)
114 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
115 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
116 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
117 target fails. Closes: #601037
118 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
120 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
121 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
122 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
123 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
124 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
126 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
127 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
129 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
130 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
131 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
133 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
135 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
138 * update french translation.
139 * Fix french misspelling.
140 * French translation update after massive man page typography
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
144 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
150 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
154 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
156 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
160 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
162 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
163 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
164 introduced by the fix to #527990.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
168 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
171 changes are planned for that mode.
172 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
173 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
174 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
175 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
176 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
177 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
178 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
179 (genesis) still uses them.
180 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
181 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
182 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
183 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
184 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
185 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
186 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
187 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
188 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
189 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
190 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
191 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
192 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
193 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
194 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
195 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
196 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
197 commands. (See #570039)
198 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
200 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
205 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
209 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
210 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
211 in control file or debhelper config files.
212 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
216 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
219 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
220 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
224 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
227 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
231 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
234 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
235 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
239 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Updated French translation.
242 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
243 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
244 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
245 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
247 * Typo. Closes: #571968
248 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
249 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
250 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
251 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
252 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
253 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
254 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
255 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
256 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
258 * dh: Improve documentation.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
262 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
264 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
265 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
266 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
270 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
273 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
277 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
280 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
284 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
287 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
288 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
289 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
290 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
291 options that they do not support.
292 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
293 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
294 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
295 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
296 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
297 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
302 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
306 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
307 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
308 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
309 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
310 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
311 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
312 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
313 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
314 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
318 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
321 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
322 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
323 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
324 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
328 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Typo. Closes: #558654
331 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
332 installed. Closes: #558782
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
336 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
339 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
340 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
341 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
342 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
343 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
347 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
349 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
350 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
351 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
352 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
356 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
359 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
360 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
364 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
366 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
370 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
372 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
373 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
374 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
375 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
376 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
377 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
378 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
379 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
380 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
381 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
382 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
383 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
384 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
385 time soon.) Closes: #554509
386 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
388 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
389 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
390 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
391 document id. Closes: #555677
392 * Typo. Closes: #555659
393 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
394 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
395 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
396 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
398 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
399 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
400 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
405 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
408 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
409 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
410 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
411 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
412 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
413 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
414 translation (#494300 part 2)
417 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
419 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
420 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
421 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
422 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
423 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
427 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
430 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
431 (It was only run once due to logging.)
432 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
433 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
434 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
435 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
436 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
437 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
438 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
439 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
440 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
441 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
445 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
449 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
452 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
453 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
457 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
460 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
461 flag with arch all/any packages.
462 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
463 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
464 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
465 situation. Closes: #540794
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
469 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
473 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
474 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
475 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
476 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
477 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
480 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
481 the default. Closes: #538201
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
486 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
490 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
491 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
492 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
493 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
494 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
496 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
497 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
498 * Above Closes: #491117
499 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
504 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
510 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
511 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
512 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
516 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
519 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
520 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
521 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
522 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
523 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
528 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
531 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
532 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
536 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
538 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
542 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
544 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
545 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
547 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
548 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
549 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
553 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
555 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
556 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
560 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
566 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
568 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
569 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
570 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
575 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
577 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
581 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
584 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
585 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
586 created by using `python' first during build and install.
588 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
593 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
595 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
599 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
601 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
602 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
606 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
608 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
612 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
614 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
618 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
620 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
621 contributed by Modestas Vainius
622 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
623 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
624 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
625 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
626 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
627 that support it. Closes: #480577
628 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
629 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
630 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
632 - Adds support for cmake.
633 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
634 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
636 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
638 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
639 that use them. The options are:
640 --sourcedir, --destdir
641 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
642 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
643 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
644 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
645 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
658 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
659 default. Closes: #537140
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
663 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
666 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
667 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
674 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
678 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
681 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
685 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
688 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
690 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
691 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
692 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
696 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
699 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
700 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
701 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
705 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
708 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
709 warning or deprecation message.
710 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
711 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
712 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
713 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
714 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
715 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
716 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
717 Closes: #534639, #357434
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
721 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
727 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
730 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
731 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
732 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
733 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
735 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
736 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
737 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
741 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
747 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
754 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
757 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
761 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
765 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
766 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
768 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
769 file support. Closes: #494914
770 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
774 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
777 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
778 parameters. Closes: #527256
779 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
780 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
781 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
785 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
789 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
790 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
791 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
795 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
798 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
799 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
800 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
804 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
807 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
808 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
810 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
811 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
812 by triggers). Closes: #521181
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
816 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
820 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
824 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
827 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
828 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
829 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
830 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
835 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
841 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
844 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
845 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
846 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
847 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
848 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
850 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
851 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
852 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
853 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
854 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
855 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
859 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
862 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
863 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
864 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
865 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
866 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
868 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
872 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
874 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
878 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
880 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
881 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
882 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
883 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
884 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
885 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
886 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
887 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
888 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
889 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
890 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
894 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
896 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
897 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
899 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
900 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
901 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
902 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
904 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
905 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
909 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
911 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
912 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
913 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
914 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
915 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
916 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
917 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
919 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
920 that uses them. Affected options are:
921 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
922 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
923 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
924 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
925 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
926 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
927 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
928 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
929 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
930 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
931 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
932 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
936 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
943 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
949 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
951 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
952 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
954 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
955 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
956 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
957 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
958 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
960 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
962 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
963 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
964 rules (see bug #509756).
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
968 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
974 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
975 * Typo. Closes: #493062
976 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
977 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
984 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
985 empty files. Closes: #490937
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
989 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
995 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1002 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1005 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1006 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1007 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1008 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1015 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1016 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1017 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1018 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1025 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1026 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1027 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1028 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1029 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1033 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1040 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1043 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1044 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1045 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1046 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1047 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1048 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1049 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1050 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1051 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1058 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1059 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1060 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1061 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1063 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1064 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1065 breaking backwards compatibility.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1069 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1072 message in perl 5.10.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1076 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1082 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1085 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1089 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1092 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1096 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1099 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1100 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1101 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1102 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1103 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1104 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1105 logging by dh_listpackages.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1112 run and there are no packages of that type.
1113 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1114 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1115 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1116 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1118 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1119 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1123 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1126 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1127 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1131 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1134 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1135 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1137 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1138 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1139 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1140 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1141 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1142 planned but not yet implemented.)
1143 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1144 if the Makefile has such a target.
1145 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1146 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1147 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1148 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1149 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1150 but not yet implemented.)
1151 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1152 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1153 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1154 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1155 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1157 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1159 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1160 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1162 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1163 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1164 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1169 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1172 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1173 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1177 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1179 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1180 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1181 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1185 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1191 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1197 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1200 just those installed by the program.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1204 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1207 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1208 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1212 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1215 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1216 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1217 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1218 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1222 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1225 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1226 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1230 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1233 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1234 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1238 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1241 with policy. Closes: #461392
1242 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1243 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1244 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1245 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1246 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1250 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1253 Closes: #460340, #460351
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1257 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1260 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1261 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1262 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1263 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1267 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1270 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1271 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1272 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1273 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1274 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1275 package build directory won't work.
1276 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1277 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1278 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1279 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1280 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1281 mode. Closes: #459426
1282 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1287 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1290 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1298 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1299 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1300 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1301 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1302 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1303 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1310 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1311 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1312 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1313 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1317 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1320 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1321 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1322 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1323 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1324 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1328 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1331 debian/package.triggers files.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1335 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1338 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1342 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1345 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1346 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1347 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1348 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1353 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1356 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1363 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1364 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1366 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1371 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1375 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1376 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1377 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1381 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1388 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1395 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1398 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1400 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1401 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1402 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1404 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1405 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1406 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1410 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1413 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1414 * Update urls to web page.
1415 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1416 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1417 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1418 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1422 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1425 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1426 - typo in alternatives call
1427 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1429 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1430 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1434 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1437 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1448 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1454 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1457 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1459 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1460 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1461 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1462 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1463 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1464 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1465 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1466 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1467 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1468 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1469 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1473 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1476 package install. Closes: #415717
1477 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1478 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1479 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1480 script and then remove the python files.
1481 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1482 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1483 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1484 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1485 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1486 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1487 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1488 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1489 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1490 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1491 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1492 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1493 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1497 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Correct typo in french translation
1503 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1504 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1506 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1508 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1509 Closes: #406921, #381940
1510 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1512 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1513 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1514 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1515 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1516 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1517 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1518 specified). Closes: #381851
1519 * Misc minor changes.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1523 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1530 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1531 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1535 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1541 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1542 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1545 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1546 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1548 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1549 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1550 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1551 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1555 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1558 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1561 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1565 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1577 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1578 a difficult situation.
1579 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1580 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1581 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1582 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1583 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1584 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1585 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1586 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1587 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1588 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1592 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Non-maintainer upload.
1595 * Update of dh_python
1596 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1597 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1599 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1600 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1601 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1602 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1603 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1605 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1607 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Non-maintainer upload.
1610 * Update of dh_python
1611 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1612 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1613 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1614 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1615 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1616 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1617 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1618 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1619 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1620 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1622 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1623 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1624 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1625 the not too-distant future).
1626 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1627 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1628 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1629 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1630 thus made the build fail.
1632 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1634 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Non-maintainer upload.
1637 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1639 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1641 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1644 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1645 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1646 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1647 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1648 package. Closes: #301424
1649 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1650 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1651 fonts). Closes: #372686
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1655 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1661 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1662 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1663 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1664 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1665 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1666 above, but already depends on that.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1673 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1674 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1675 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1676 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1677 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1681 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1687 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1693 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1694 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1698 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1701 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1705 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1709 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1710 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1711 new version (0.24.1).
1712 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1713 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1716 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1717 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1718 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1719 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1720 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1721 new directory on their own.
1722 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1723 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1727 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1730 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1731 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1732 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1733 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1737 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1740 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1741 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1742 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1743 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1744 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1748 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1754 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1758 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1759 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1763 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1764 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1768 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1770 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1771 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1773 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1774 ignored. Closes: #337664
1776 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1792 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1793 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1794 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1795 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1796 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1797 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1798 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1805 version. Closes: #350607
1806 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1807 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1808 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1809 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1813 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1816 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1817 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1818 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1829 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1835 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1838 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1845 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1846 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1847 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1848 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1849 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1850 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1857 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1858 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1863 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1866 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1870 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1873 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1877 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1880 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1881 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1882 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1883 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1884 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1885 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1889 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1893 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1894 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1895 link. Closes: #346405
1896 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1898 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1899 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1900 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1901 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1902 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1903 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1904 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1908 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1921 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1924 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1928 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1931 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1936 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1940 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1941 installed. Closes: #342033
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1945 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1948 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1949 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1950 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1955 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1967 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1971 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1972 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1973 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1977 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1980 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1985 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1992 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1998 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2001 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2002 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2003 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2004 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2005 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2006 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2007 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2009 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2013 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2016 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2017 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2024 in standard man dirs.
2025 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2038 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2057 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2060 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2061 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2068 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2069 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2070 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2072 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2074 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2089 mode. Closes: #324161
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2096 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2097 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2098 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2099 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2107 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2108 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2109 is necesary for sanity.
2110 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2111 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2118 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2119 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2126 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2136 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2139 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2140 released, so use at your own risk.
2141 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2142 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2144 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2145 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2146 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2147 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2148 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2149 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2150 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2151 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2152 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2153 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2154 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2155 including twice per config file line now..
2156 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2157 and simplfy the rules file.
2158 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2159 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2160 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2162 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2163 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2170 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2177 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2184 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2191 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2192 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2193 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2194 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2195 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2196 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2203 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2204 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2205 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2213 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2214 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2222 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2223 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2224 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2232 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2233 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2234 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2254 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2255 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2256 unknown. Closes: #282924
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2260 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Spanish man page updates.
2270 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2284 * dh_desktop: reindent
2285 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2286 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2298 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2304 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2308 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2311 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2312 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2316 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2338 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2345 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2346 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2347 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2348 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2349 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2350 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2352 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2353 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2354 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2355 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2356 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2357 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2358 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2359 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2360 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2361 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2362 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2363 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2364 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2365 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2366 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2367 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2381 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2385 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2388 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2395 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2402 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2424 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2427 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2428 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2429 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2436 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2440 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2443 but occasionally right and necessary.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2447 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2450 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2451 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2452 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2453 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2454 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2458 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2461 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2463 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2464 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2465 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2466 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2467 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2468 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2469 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2470 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2471 postinst scripts for udebs.
2472 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2476 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2479 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2481 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2482 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2499 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2506 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2509 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2516 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2523 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2526 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2527 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2540 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2547 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2548 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2549 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2551 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2553 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2554 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2555 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2559 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2562 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2570 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2571 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2572 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2577 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2583 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2592 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2593 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2594 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2595 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2596 associated -dbg packages.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2603 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2610 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2617 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2624 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2632 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2639 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2647 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2655 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2656 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2657 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2658 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2659 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2660 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2661 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2662 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2663 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2664 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2671 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2679 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2680 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2687 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2688 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2696 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2703 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2710 out section number. Closes: #204731
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2736 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2737 removal. Closes: #204286
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2744 renaming. Closes: #203548
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2751 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2752 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2768 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2774 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2777 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2778 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2779 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2786 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2787 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2807 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2815 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2822 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2824 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2825 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2832 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2840 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2852 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2859 it break hard links (see #188663).
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2866 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2876 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2880 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2881 debconf-mergetemplates
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2885 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2888 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2892 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2895 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2899 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2902 * Update debhelper(1).
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2906 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2909 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2910 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2911 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2912 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2913 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2917 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2920 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2921 the shell. Closes: #178524
2922 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2926 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2929 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2933 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2936 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2940 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2943 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2944 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2945 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2946 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2951 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2954 files from installation.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2958 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2961 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2962 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2966 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2969 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2973 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2976 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2980 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2986 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2992 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2996 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2997 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2999 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3003 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3006 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3007 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3008 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3009 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3013 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3016 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3020 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3023 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3024 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3028 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3032 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3037 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3047 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3048 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3049 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3057 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3058 practice. Closes: #163303
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3078 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3080 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3081 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3082 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3083 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3084 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3091 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3112 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3135 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3142 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3145 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3146 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3147 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3148 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3169 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3170 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3177 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3178 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3179 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3180 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3181 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3185 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3188 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3190 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3198 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3205 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3206 right thing. Closes: #150644
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Stupid, evil typo.
3213 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3217 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3224 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3227 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3228 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3233 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3239 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3242 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3246 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3249 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3250 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3255 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3258 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3262 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3271 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3272 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3276 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3282 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Removing perl warning message.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3288 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3291 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3292 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3293 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3294 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3295 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3296 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3297 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3298 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3302 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3308 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3315 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3318 debconf-mergetemplate.
3319 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3320 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3327 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3328 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3329 dh_install, which ...
3330 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3331 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3332 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3333 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3334 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3335 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3336 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3337 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3338 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3339 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3340 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3341 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3342 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3343 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3344 other minor changes.
3345 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3346 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3347 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3348 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3349 course there's -X ..)
3350 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3351 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3352 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3354 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3355 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3356 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3357 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3358 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3369 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3372 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3376 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3382 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3388 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3394 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3400 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3403 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3404 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3405 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3406 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3408 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3409 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3413 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3422 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3426 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3429 upset. Closes: #131322
3431 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3433 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3436 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3437 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3438 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3439 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3440 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3441 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3442 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3443 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3444 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3445 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3446 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3447 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3448 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3449 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3450 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3452 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3456 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3459 - Better indenting of generated code.
3460 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3464 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3468 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3469 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3470 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3471 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3472 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3473 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3474 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3478 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3481 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3485 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3488 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3489 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3490 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3491 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3492 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3493 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3494 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3495 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3496 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3497 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3498 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3499 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3500 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3501 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3502 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3507 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3513 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3516 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3517 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3521 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3524 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3525 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3529 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3535 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3538 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3539 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3540 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3541 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3542 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3547 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3553 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3556 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3563 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3574 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3577 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3587 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3591 Also some indentation fixes.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3598 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3599 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3600 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3601 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3602 Closes: #106514, #85520
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3624 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3630 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3636 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3639 change it in debhelper v4..
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3643 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3649 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3652 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3656 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3659 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3663 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3669 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3672 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3673 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3674 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3675 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3676 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3677 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3678 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3679 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3680 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3681 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3682 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3683 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3690 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3694 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3701 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3704 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3705 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3706 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3707 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3708 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3709 program those options go to. So, for example,
3710 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3711 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3712 something complex. Closes: #89311
3713 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3717 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3720 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3721 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3722 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3726 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3729 through loop. Closes: #98598
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3733 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Missing semi-colon.
3736 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3737 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3741 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3744 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3745 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3746 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3750 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3753 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3754 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3758 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3761 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3765 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3768 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3769 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3773 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3776 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3777 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3778 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3782 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3785 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3786 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3787 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3791 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3794 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3798 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3804 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3810 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3816 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3822 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3825 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3829 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3832 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3833 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3834 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3835 followed. Closes: #85483
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3839 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3841 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3842 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3843 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3847 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3850 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3851 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3852 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3853 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3854 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3855 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3856 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3857 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3858 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3859 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3860 Closes: #88464, #77743
3861 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3862 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3863 us to deal with that gracefully.
3864 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3866 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3867 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3868 a while, Closes: #51225
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3872 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3878 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3881 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3885 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3889 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3894 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3897 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3898 don't make packlist files.
3899 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3900 debhelper coding standards.
3901 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3902 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3906 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3909 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3913 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3916 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3917 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3918 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3919 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3920 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3921 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3922 but is mildly deprecated.
3923 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3924 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3925 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3926 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3927 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3928 switching to statoverrides..
3929 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3930 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3931 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3932 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3933 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3934 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3936 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3937 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3938 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3939 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3940 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3941 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3942 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3943 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3944 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3946 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3947 variable names, pod man pages).
3948 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3949 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3950 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3951 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3952 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3953 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3954 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3974 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3980 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3981 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3982 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3988 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3989 they were previously ignored.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3993 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3995 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3996 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4000 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4003 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4004 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4010 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4014 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4016 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4017 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4021 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4023 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4024 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4025 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4026 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4027 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4028 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4029 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4030 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4031 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4032 it is an obsolete program.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4038 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4046 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4052 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4056 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4058 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4062 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4068 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * typo: Closes, #78567
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4074 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4089 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4090 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4091 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4092 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4093 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4100 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4105 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4108 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4109 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4110 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4111 backwards-compatibility.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4115 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4118 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4119 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4120 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4121 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4122 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4123 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4125 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4126 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4127 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4129 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4131 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4132 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4133 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4134 should now be raised to severity important..
4135 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4136 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4143 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4166 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4173 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4176 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4177 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4178 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4179 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4189 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4192 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4193 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4194 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4195 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4196 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4197 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4202 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4205 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4215 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4218 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4226 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4227 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4228 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4229 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4237 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4240 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4243 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4244 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4247 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4249 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4250 the TODO entry about it.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4264 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4265 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4272 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4273 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4274 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4275 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4295 (this appears to be logal).
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4299 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4302 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4303 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4304 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4305 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4318 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4319 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4320 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4321 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4334 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4348 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4349 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4350 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4371 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4372 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4373 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4374 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4375 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4376 notice until v2 is complete.
4377 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4378 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4379 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4380 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4381 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4382 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4384 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4385 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4386 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4387 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4407 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4411 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4421 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4422 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4423 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4424 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4432 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4433 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4434 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4442 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4443 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4450 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4457 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4471 depend on the build and install targets.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4478 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4504 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4505 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4506 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4507 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4508 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4509 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4511 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4512 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4513 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4514 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4515 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4516 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4517 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4536 right place. Closes: #55065
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4540 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4547 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4550 * Copyright date updates.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4554 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4557 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4568 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4575 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4581 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4587 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4593 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4596 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4597 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4598 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4599 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4600 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4601 bits until all files have been registered.
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4605 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_installmanpages:
4608 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4609 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4610 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4611 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4612 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4613 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4614 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4615 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4616 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4617 otherwise change the result at all.
4619 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4620 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4621 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4622 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4623 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4628 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4634 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4637 act on files that don't exist.
4638 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4639 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4640 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4642 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4643 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4644 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4645 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4649 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4655 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4661 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4664 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4668 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4671 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4673 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4674 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4675 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4679 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4682 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4683 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4684 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4685 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4686 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4687 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4688 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4690 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4692 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4696 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4703 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4718 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4737 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4738 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4739 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4740 I made some changes, though:
4741 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4742 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4743 that is a clear violation of policy.
4744 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4745 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4746 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4747 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4748 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4749 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4750 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4751 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4752 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4754 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4767 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4771 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4774 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4775 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4793 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4796 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4797 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4798 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4799 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4800 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4801 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4802 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4812 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4816 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4817 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4830 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4837 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4838 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4844 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4853 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4860 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4861 for the dependancies to be generated.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4868 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4875 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4876 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4877 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4885 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4886 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4902 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4905 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4918 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4919 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4920 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4921 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4922 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4923 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4924 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4925 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4926 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4927 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4928 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4929 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4933 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4936 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4937 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4939 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4940 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4941 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4942 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4943 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4944 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4946 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4947 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4954 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4968 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4973 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4976 for building debhelper.
4977 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4988 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4991 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4998 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4999 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5000 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5001 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5002 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5003 it's always available.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5007 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5010 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5011 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5012 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5019 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5020 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5033 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5037 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5043 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5046 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5047 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5048 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5052 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5055 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5063 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5064 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5066 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5067 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5077 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5083 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5086 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5090 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5093 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5094 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5096 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5100 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5103 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5104 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5105 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5109 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5112 things if CDPATH is set.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5116 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5122 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5125 seems to make sense for the transition.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5132 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5137 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5140 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5141 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5145 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5148 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5152 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5155 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5156 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5157 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5158 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5168 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5171 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5172 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5173 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5174 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5175 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5176 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5177 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5178 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5179 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5180 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5188 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5189 * README: mention doc/v2
5190 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5191 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5197 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5198 be using this script RSN.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5205 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5206 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5207 more than 1 init script.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5214 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Changed perl version detection.
5221 * Changed call to find.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5228 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5230 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * Really include dh_installpam.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5244 * Wrote man page for same.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5251 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5252 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5267 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5268 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5269 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5270 x bit was being set!
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5277 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5278 well. (Closes: 38900)
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5285 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5286 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5312 help from Julian Gilbey.
5313 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5314 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5315 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5316 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5317 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5318 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5319 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5330 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5337 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5352 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5356 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5359 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5363 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5366 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5376 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5379 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5383 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5398 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5399 may be deleted. (#35845)
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Various man page enhancements.
5406 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5414 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5415 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5419 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5422 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5423 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5424 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5426 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5427 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5432 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Another very minor typo fix.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Very minor typo fix.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5453 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5454 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5467 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5468 variables properly (#34850).
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5481 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5482 (automatically generated by build process).
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5488 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5495 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5496 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5498 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5505 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * README: minor typo fix.
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5515 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5518 leave it at that. :-)
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5537 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5538 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5539 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5546 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5553 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5560 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5561 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5562 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5563 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5570 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5571 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5572 Craig Small for spotting this.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5579 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5580 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5593 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5599 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5600 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5601 working on the last version of debhelper.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5608 being made. (#23255)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5612 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5621 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5628 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5629 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5630 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5631 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5638 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5639 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5640 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5641 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5643 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5644 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5646 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5666 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5667 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5668 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5669 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5670 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5671 suidregister actually supports it.
5672 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5673 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5677 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5684 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5687 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5688 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5689 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5690 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5691 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5692 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5693 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5697 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5699 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5700 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5704 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5707 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5708 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5709 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5710 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5717 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5719 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5720 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5721 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5722 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5723 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5724 effect, either. (#30118)
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5737 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5738 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5751 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5752 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5753 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5754 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5761 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5762 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5775 packages, painlessly.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5797 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * The perl conversion is complete.
5801 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5803 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5804 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5805 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5813 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5814 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5815 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5819 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5822 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5824 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5826 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5827 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5834 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5835 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5845 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5848 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5849 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5850 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5851 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5852 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5856 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5859 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5860 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5861 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5862 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5866 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5869 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5876 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5877 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5878 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5879 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5880 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5881 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5882 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5883 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5887 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5893 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5896 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5897 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5898 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5903 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5906 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5910 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5913 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5917 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5920 sections of shared libraries.
5921 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5922 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5923 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5924 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5925 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5926 things you don't want them to.
5927 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5928 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5935 shared libraries. (#26414)
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5939 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5941 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5942 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5943 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5944 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5952 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5954 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5955 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5956 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5957 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5958 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5962 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5965 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5969 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5972 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5973 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5978 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5981 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5985 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5988 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5989 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5990 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5991 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5992 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5994 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5995 remove debian/files properly.
5996 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5997 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5998 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5999 * Removed bogus menu file.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6003 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6006 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6010 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6013 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6014 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6015 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6016 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6017 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6018 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6022 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6025 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6026 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6027 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6028 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6032 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6039 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6042 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6043 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6045 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6046 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6047 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6048 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6049 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6050 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6054 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6057 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6058 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6059 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6060 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6061 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6062 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6063 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6064 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6065 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6066 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6067 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6068 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6069 passed any switches.
6070 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6074 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6077 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6078 at all for a long while.
6079 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6080 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6081 large chunks in the process.
6082 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6083 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6084 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6089 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6092 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6094 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6099 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6102 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6103 that don't always have the same files in them.
6104 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6105 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6106 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6110 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6114 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6115 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6116 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6117 updating 27 man pages.
6118 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6119 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6120 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6121 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6122 programs act on. (#25247)
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6126 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6130 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6131 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6132 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6133 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6134 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6135 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6140 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6147 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6154 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6157 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6161 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6167 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6170 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6171 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6172 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6173 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6174 package by accident.
6175 * Is version 1.0 next?
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6182 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6183 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6187 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6190 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6191 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6192 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6193 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6194 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6196 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6201 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6204 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6205 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6209 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6212 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6216 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6219 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6220 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6225 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6231 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6234 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6235 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6240 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6246 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6249 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6250 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6251 past week. Thanks, guys!
6253 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6254 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6255 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6256 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6257 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6258 would do in the same situation.
6259 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6260 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6262 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6264 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6265 permissions changed.
6266 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6267 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6268 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6269 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6270 files are treated identically.
6271 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6272 * Minor man page fixes.
6273 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6274 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6275 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6279 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6282 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6283 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6284 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6285 use -X multiple times, too.
6286 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6287 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6291 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6294 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6295 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6299 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6302 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6306 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6309 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6310 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6311 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6312 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6313 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6314 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6315 shape if you're starting a new package.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6319 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6322 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6326 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6329 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6330 because of missing symlinks.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6343 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6344 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6345 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6346 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6347 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6349 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6350 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6354 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6356 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6357 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6358 to be changed after the fact :-)
6359 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6363 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6365 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6366 no version string after the -V.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6370 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6372 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6373 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6378 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6381 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6385 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6388 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6389 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6390 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6391 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6392 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6393 I always welcome corrections!
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6397 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6403 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6406 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6407 * Documented this new switch.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6411 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6414 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6415 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6416 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6417 no packages use the old behavior.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6424 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6425 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6432 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6436 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6442 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6445 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6449 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6452 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6453 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6454 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6458 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6464 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6467 into the source package by accident.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6471 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6474 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6475 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6476 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6477 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6478 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6479 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6484 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6488 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6489 inspired to implement some of it.
6490 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6494 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6497 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6501 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6504 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6505 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6509 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6512 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6513 have done.) (#17598)
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6532 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6539 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6540 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6547 argument processor in perl.
6548 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6549 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6550 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6551 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6558 type directories. (#16933)
6559 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6560 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6561 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6562 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6563 are supported. (#16935)
6564 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6569 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6572 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6576 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6580 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6581 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6582 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6583 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6584 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6585 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6589 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6591 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6592 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6593 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6595 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6596 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6597 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6598 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6599 a given package, or -i or -a.
6600 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6601 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6602 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6603 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6604 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6605 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6606 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6607 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6608 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6610 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6611 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6612 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6616 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6619 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6620 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6625 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6627 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6628 does not have a section.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6635 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6636 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6637 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6641 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Fixed typo #16215.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6650 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6651 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6652 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6653 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6654 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6659 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6662 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6663 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6664 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6681 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6684 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6685 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6686 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6687 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6688 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6689 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6699 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6702 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6706 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6709 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6710 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6711 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6715 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6717 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6718 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6722 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6728 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6730 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6731 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6735 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6737 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6738 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6742 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6748 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6750 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6751 postinst, postrm, etc.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6755 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6764 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6765 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6766 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6767 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6768 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6775 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6776 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6780 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6783 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6787 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6789 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6790 installing package files into.
6791 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6796 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6800 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6804 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6810 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6812 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6813 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6817 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6820 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6821 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6822 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6823 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6827 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6829 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6830 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6831 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6832 multiple binary packages.
6833 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6834 should rebuild them with this version.
6835 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6839 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6842 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6846 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6848 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6849 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6853 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6855 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6856 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6857 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6858 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6859 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6860 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6861 debian/README.debian.
6862 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6863 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6864 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6865 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6866 in a few situations.)
6868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6870 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6872 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6876 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6882 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6884 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6885 * Fixed several man pages.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6889 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6892 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6893 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6897 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6899 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6900 is ready for general use.
6901 * Added man pages for all commands.
6902 * Multiple binary package support.
6903 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6904 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6905 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6907 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6908 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6909 auto-installed as parameters.
6910 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6912 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6915 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6916 the package build directory it is to act on.
6917 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6918 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6919 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6923 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6925 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6926 ready to replace debstd.
6928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400