1 debhelper (8.1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
4 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; closes: #412118.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:32:35 -0400
9 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
12 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
13 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
14 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
15 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
16 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
17 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
19 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
20 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
21 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
22 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
23 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
24 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
25 (Thanks, David Prévot)
26 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
27 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
28 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
29 target fails. Closes: #601037
30 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
32 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
33 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
34 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
36 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
38 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
39 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
41 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
42 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
43 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
45 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
47 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
50 * update french translation.
51 * Fix french misspelling.
52 * French translation update after massive man page typography
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
56 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
62 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
66 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
68 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
72 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
74 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
75 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
76 introduced by the fix to #527990.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
80 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
83 changes are planned for that mode.
84 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
85 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
86 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
87 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
88 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
89 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
90 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
91 (genesis) still uses them.
92 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
93 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
94 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
95 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
96 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
97 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
98 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
99 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
100 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
101 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
102 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
103 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
104 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
105 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
106 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
107 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
108 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
109 commands. (See #570039)
110 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
112 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
117 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
121 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
122 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
123 in control file or debhelper config files.
124 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
128 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
131 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
132 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
136 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
139 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
143 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
146 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
147 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
151 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Updated French translation.
154 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
155 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
156 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
157 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
159 * Typo. Closes: #571968
160 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
161 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
162 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
163 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
164 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
165 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
166 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
167 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
168 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
170 * dh: Improve documentation.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
174 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
176 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
177 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
178 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
182 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
185 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
192 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
196 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
199 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
200 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
201 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
202 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
203 options that they do not support.
204 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
205 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
206 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
207 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
208 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
209 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
214 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
218 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
219 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
220 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
221 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
222 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
223 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
224 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
225 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
226 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
230 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
233 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
234 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
235 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
236 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
240 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Typo. Closes: #558654
243 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
244 installed. Closes: #558782
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
248 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
251 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
252 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
253 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
254 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
255 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
259 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
261 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
262 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
263 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
264 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
268 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
271 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
272 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
276 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
278 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
282 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
284 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
285 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
286 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
287 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
288 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
289 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
290 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
291 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
292 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
293 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
294 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
295 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
296 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
297 time soon.) Closes: #554509
298 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
300 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
301 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
302 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
303 document id. Closes: #555677
304 * Typo. Closes: #555659
305 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
306 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
307 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
308 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
310 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
311 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
312 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
317 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
320 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
321 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
322 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
323 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
324 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
325 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
326 translation (#494300 part 2)
329 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
331 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
332 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
333 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
334 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
335 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
339 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
342 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
343 (It was only run once due to logging.)
344 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
345 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
346 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
347 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
348 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
349 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
350 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
351 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
352 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
353 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
357 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
361 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
364 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
365 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
369 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
372 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
373 flag with arch all/any packages.
374 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
375 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
376 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
377 situation. Closes: #540794
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
381 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
385 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
386 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
387 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
388 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
389 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
392 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
393 the default. Closes: #538201
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
398 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
402 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
403 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
404 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
405 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
406 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
408 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
409 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
410 * Above Closes: #491117
411 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
416 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
422 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
423 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
424 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
428 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
431 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
432 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
433 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
434 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
435 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
440 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
443 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
444 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
448 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
450 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
454 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
456 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
457 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
459 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
460 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
461 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
465 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
467 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
468 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
472 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
478 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
480 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
481 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
482 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
487 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
489 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
493 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
496 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
497 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
498 created by using `python' first during build and install.
500 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
505 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
507 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
511 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
513 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
514 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
518 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
520 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
524 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
526 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
530 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
532 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
533 contributed by Modestas Vainius
534 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
535 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
536 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
537 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
538 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
539 that support it. Closes: #480577
540 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
541 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
542 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
544 - Adds support for cmake.
545 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
546 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
548 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
550 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
551 that use them. The options are:
552 --sourcedir, --destdir
553 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
554 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
555 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
556 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
557 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
561 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
567 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
570 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
571 default. Closes: #537140
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
575 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
578 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
579 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
583 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
586 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
590 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
593 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
597 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
600 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
602 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
603 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
604 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
608 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
611 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
612 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
613 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
617 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
620 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
621 warning or deprecation message.
622 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
623 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
624 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
625 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
626 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
627 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
628 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
629 Closes: #534639, #357434
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
633 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
639 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
642 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
643 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
644 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
645 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
647 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
648 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
649 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
653 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
659 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
669 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
673 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
677 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
678 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
680 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
681 file support. Closes: #494914
682 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
686 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
689 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
690 parameters. Closes: #527256
691 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
692 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
693 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
697 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
701 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
702 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
703 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
710 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
711 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
712 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
716 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
719 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
720 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
722 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
723 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
724 by triggers). Closes: #521181
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
728 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
732 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
736 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
739 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
740 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
741 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
742 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
747 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
753 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
756 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
757 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
758 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
759 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
760 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
762 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
763 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
764 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
765 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
766 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
767 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
771 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
774 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
775 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
776 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
777 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
778 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
780 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
784 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
786 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
790 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
792 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
793 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
794 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
795 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
796 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
797 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
798 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
799 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
800 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
801 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
802 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
806 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
808 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
809 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
811 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
812 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
813 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
814 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
816 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
817 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
821 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
823 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
824 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
825 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
826 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
827 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
828 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
829 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
831 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
832 that uses them. Affected options are:
833 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
834 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
835 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
836 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
837 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
838 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
839 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
840 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
841 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
842 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
843 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
844 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
855 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
861 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
863 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
864 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
866 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
867 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
868 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
869 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
870 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
872 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
874 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
875 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
876 rules (see bug #509756).
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
880 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
886 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
887 * Typo. Closes: #493062
888 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
889 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
893 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
896 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
897 empty files. Closes: #490937
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
907 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
914 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
917 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
918 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
919 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
920 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
925 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
927 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
928 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
929 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
930 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
934 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
937 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
938 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
939 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
940 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
941 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
945 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
952 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
954 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
955 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
956 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
957 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
958 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
959 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
960 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
961 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
962 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
963 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
967 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
970 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
971 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
972 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
973 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
975 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
976 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
977 breaking backwards compatibility.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
984 message in perl 5.10.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
994 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Convert copyright file to new format.
997 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1004 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1011 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1012 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1013 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1014 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1015 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1016 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1017 logging by dh_listpackages.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1021 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1024 run and there are no packages of that type.
1025 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1026 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1027 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1028 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1030 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1031 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1035 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1038 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1039 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1043 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1046 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1047 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1049 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1050 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1051 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1052 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1053 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1054 planned but not yet implemented.)
1055 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1056 if the Makefile has such a target.
1057 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1058 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1059 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1060 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1061 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1062 but not yet implemented.)
1063 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1064 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1065 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1066 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1067 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1069 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1071 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1072 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1074 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1075 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1076 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1081 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1084 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1085 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1089 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1091 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1092 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1093 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1097 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1103 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1109 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1112 just those installed by the program.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1116 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1119 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1120 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1124 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1127 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1128 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1129 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1130 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1134 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1137 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1138 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1142 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1145 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1146 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1150 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1153 with policy. Closes: #461392
1154 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1155 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1156 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1157 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1158 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1162 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1165 Closes: #460340, #460351
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1169 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1172 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1173 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1174 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1175 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1179 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1182 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1183 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1184 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1185 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1186 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1187 package build directory won't work.
1188 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1189 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1190 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1191 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1192 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1193 mode. Closes: #459426
1194 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1202 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1206 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1210 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1211 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1212 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1213 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1214 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1215 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1219 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1222 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1223 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1224 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1225 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1229 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1232 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1233 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1234 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1235 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1236 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1240 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1243 debian/package.triggers files.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1247 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1250 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1257 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1258 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1259 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1260 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1265 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1268 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1272 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1275 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1276 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1278 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1283 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1287 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1288 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1289 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1300 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1307 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1310 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1312 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1313 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1314 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1316 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1317 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1318 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1322 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1325 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1326 * Update urls to web page.
1327 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1328 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1329 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1330 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1334 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1337 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1338 - typo in alternatives call
1339 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1341 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1342 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1349 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1354 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1366 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1369 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1371 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1372 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1373 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1374 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1375 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1376 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1377 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1378 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1379 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1380 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1381 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1388 package install. Closes: #415717
1389 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1390 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1391 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1392 script and then remove the python files.
1393 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1394 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1395 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1396 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1397 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1398 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1399 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1400 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1401 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1402 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1403 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1404 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1405 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1409 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Correct typo in french translation
1415 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1416 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1418 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1420 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1421 Closes: #406921, #381940
1422 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1424 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1425 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1426 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1427 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1428 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1429 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1430 specified). Closes: #381851
1431 * Misc minor changes.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1435 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1442 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1443 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1447 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1453 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1454 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1457 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1458 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1460 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1461 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1462 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1463 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1467 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1470 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1473 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1483 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1489 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1490 a difficult situation.
1491 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1492 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1493 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1494 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1495 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1496 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1497 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1498 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1499 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1500 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1504 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Non-maintainer upload.
1507 * Update of dh_python
1508 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1509 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1511 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1512 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1513 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1514 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1515 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1517 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1519 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Non-maintainer upload.
1522 * Update of dh_python
1523 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1524 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1525 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1526 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1527 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1528 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1529 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1530 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1531 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1532 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1534 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1535 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1536 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1537 the not too-distant future).
1538 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1539 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1540 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1541 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1542 thus made the build fail.
1544 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1546 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Non-maintainer upload.
1549 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1551 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1553 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1556 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1557 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1558 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1559 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1560 package. Closes: #301424
1561 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1562 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1563 fonts). Closes: #372686
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1567 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1573 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1574 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1575 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1576 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1577 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1578 above, but already depends on that.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1582 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1585 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1586 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1587 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1588 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1589 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1599 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1605 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1606 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1610 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1613 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1617 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1621 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1622 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1623 new version (0.24.1).
1624 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1625 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1628 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1629 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1630 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1631 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1632 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1633 new directory on their own.
1634 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1635 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1639 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1642 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1643 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1644 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1645 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1649 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1652 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1653 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1654 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1655 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1656 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1660 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1666 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1670 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1671 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1675 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1676 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1680 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1682 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1683 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1685 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1686 ignored. Closes: #337664
1688 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1693 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1699 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1704 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1705 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1706 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1707 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1708 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1709 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1710 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1717 version. Closes: #350607
1718 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1719 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1720 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1721 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1725 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1728 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1729 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1730 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1750 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1754 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1757 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1758 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1759 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1760 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1761 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1762 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1766 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1769 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1770 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1778 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1782 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1785 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1789 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1792 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1793 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1794 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1795 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1796 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1797 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1801 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1805 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1806 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1807 link. Closes: #346405
1808 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1810 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1811 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1812 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1813 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1814 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1815 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1816 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1820 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1836 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1843 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1852 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1853 installed. Closes: #342033
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1860 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1861 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1862 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1867 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1873 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1879 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1883 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1884 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1885 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1889 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1892 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1897 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1904 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1910 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1913 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1914 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1915 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1916 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1917 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1918 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1919 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1921 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1928 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1929 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1936 in standard man dirs.
1937 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1950 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1969 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1972 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1973 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1980 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1981 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1982 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1984 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1986 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2001 mode. Closes: #324161
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2008 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2009 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2010 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2011 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2019 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2020 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2021 is necesary for sanity.
2022 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2023 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2030 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2031 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2038 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2051 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2052 released, so use at your own risk.
2053 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2054 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2056 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2057 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2058 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2059 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2060 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2061 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2062 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2063 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2064 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2065 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2066 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2067 including twice per config file line now..
2068 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2069 and simplfy the rules file.
2070 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2071 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2072 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2074 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2075 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2082 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2089 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2096 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2103 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2104 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2105 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2106 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2107 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2108 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2115 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2116 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2117 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2125 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2126 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2134 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2135 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2136 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2144 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2145 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2146 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2166 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2167 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2168 unknown. Closes: #282924
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Spanish man page updates.
2182 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2196 * dh_desktop: reindent
2197 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2198 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2210 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2216 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2220 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2223 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2224 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2228 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2250 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2257 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2258 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2259 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2260 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2261 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2262 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2264 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2265 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2266 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2267 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2268 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2269 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2270 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2271 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2272 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2273 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2274 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2275 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2276 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2277 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2278 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2279 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2293 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2297 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2300 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2307 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2314 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2330 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2339 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2340 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2341 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2348 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2355 but occasionally right and necessary.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2359 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2362 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2363 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2364 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2365 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2366 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2373 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2375 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2376 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2377 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2378 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2379 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2380 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2381 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2382 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2383 postinst scripts for udebs.
2384 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2388 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2391 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2393 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2394 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2411 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2421 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2428 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2435 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2438 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2439 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2452 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2459 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2460 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2461 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2463 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2465 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2466 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2467 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2474 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2479 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2482 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2483 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2484 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2489 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2504 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2505 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2506 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2507 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2508 associated -dbg packages.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2515 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2522 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2529 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2536 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2544 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2551 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2559 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2567 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2568 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2569 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2570 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2571 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2572 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2573 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2574 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2575 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2576 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2583 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2591 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2592 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2599 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2600 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2608 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2615 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2622 out section number. Closes: #204731
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2648 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2649 removal. Closes: #204286
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2656 renaming. Closes: #203548
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2663 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2664 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2680 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2686 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2689 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2690 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2691 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2698 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2699 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2709 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2719 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2727 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2731 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2734 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2736 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2737 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2744 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2752 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2764 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2771 it break hard links (see #188663).
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2778 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2792 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2793 debconf-mergetemplates
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2797 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2800 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2807 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2814 * Update debhelper(1).
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2821 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2822 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2823 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2824 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2825 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2829 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2832 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2833 the shell. Closes: #178524
2834 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2838 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2841 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2848 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2855 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2856 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2857 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2858 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2863 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2866 files from installation.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2873 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2874 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2881 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2888 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2892 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2898 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2904 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2908 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2909 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2911 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2915 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2918 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2919 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2920 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2921 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2928 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2932 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2935 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2936 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2940 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2944 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2959 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2960 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2961 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2966 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2969 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2970 practice. Closes: #163303
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2990 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2992 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2993 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2994 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2995 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2996 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3003 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3024 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3057 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3058 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3059 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3060 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3071 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3081 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3082 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3089 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3090 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3091 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3092 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3093 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3100 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3102 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3110 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3117 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3118 right thing. Closes: #150644
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3122 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Stupid, evil typo.
3125 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3136 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3139 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3140 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3154 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3161 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3162 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3170 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3183 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3184 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Removing perl warning message.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3200 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3203 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3204 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3205 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3206 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3207 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3208 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3209 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3210 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3214 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3220 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3227 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3230 debconf-mergetemplate.
3231 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3232 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3236 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3239 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3240 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3241 dh_install, which ...
3242 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3243 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3244 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3245 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3246 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3247 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3248 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3249 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3250 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3251 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3252 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3253 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3254 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3255 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3256 other minor changes.
3257 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3258 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3259 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3260 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3261 course there's -X ..)
3262 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3263 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3264 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3266 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3267 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3268 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3269 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3270 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3275 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3281 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3284 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3288 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3294 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3300 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3306 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3312 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3315 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3316 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3317 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3318 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3320 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3321 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3325 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3331 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3334 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3338 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3341 upset. Closes: #131322
3343 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3345 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3348 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3349 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3350 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3351 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3352 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3353 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3354 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3355 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3356 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3357 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3358 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3359 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3360 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3361 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3362 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3364 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3371 - Better indenting of generated code.
3372 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3376 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3380 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3381 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3382 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3383 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3384 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3385 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3386 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3390 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3393 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3397 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3400 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3401 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3402 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3403 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3404 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3405 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3406 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3407 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3408 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3409 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3410 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3411 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3412 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3413 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3414 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3425 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3428 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3429 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3433 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3436 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3437 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3447 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3450 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3451 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3452 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3453 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3454 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3459 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3465 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3468 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3475 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3480 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3489 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3499 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3503 Also some indentation fixes.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3507 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3510 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3511 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3512 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3513 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3514 Closes: #106514, #85520
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3530 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3536 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3542 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3548 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3551 change it in debhelper v4..
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3561 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3564 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3571 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3584 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3585 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3586 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3587 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3588 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3589 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3590 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3591 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3592 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3593 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3594 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3595 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3599 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3602 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3616 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3617 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3618 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3619 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3620 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3621 program those options go to. So, for example,
3622 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3623 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3624 something complex. Closes: #89311
3625 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3632 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3633 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3634 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3641 through loop. Closes: #98598
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Missing semi-colon.
3648 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3649 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3653 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3656 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3657 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3658 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3662 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3665 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3666 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3670 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3673 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3680 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3681 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3685 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3688 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3689 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3690 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3694 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3697 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3698 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3699 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3703 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3706 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3710 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3716 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3722 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3728 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3734 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3737 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3741 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3744 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3745 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3746 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3747 followed. Closes: #85483
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3751 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3753 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3754 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3755 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3759 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3762 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3763 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3764 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3765 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3766 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3767 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3768 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3769 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3770 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3771 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3772 Closes: #88464, #77743
3773 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3774 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3775 us to deal with that gracefully.
3776 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3778 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3779 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3780 a while, Closes: #51225
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3784 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3790 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3793 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3797 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3801 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3806 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3809 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3810 don't make packlist files.
3811 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3812 debhelper coding standards.
3813 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3814 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3818 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3821 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3825 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3828 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3829 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3830 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3831 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3832 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3833 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3834 but is mildly deprecated.
3835 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3836 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3837 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3838 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3839 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3840 switching to statoverrides..
3841 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3842 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3843 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3844 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3845 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3846 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3848 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3849 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3850 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3851 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3852 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3853 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3854 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3855 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3856 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3858 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3859 variable names, pod man pages).
3860 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3861 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3862 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3863 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3864 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3865 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3866 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3886 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3892 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3893 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3894 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3900 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3901 they were previously ignored.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3907 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3908 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3914 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3915 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3916 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3922 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3928 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3929 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3935 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3936 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3937 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3938 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3939 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3940 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3941 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3942 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3943 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3944 it is an obsolete program.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3950 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3958 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3964 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3968 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3970 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * typo: Closes, #78567
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4001 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4002 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4003 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4004 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4005 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4012 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4017 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4020 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4021 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4022 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4023 backwards-compatibility.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4030 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4031 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4032 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4033 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4034 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4035 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4037 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4038 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4039 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4041 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4043 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4044 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4045 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4046 should now be raised to severity important..
4047 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4048 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4055 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4088 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4089 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4090 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4091 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4095 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4104 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4105 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4106 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4107 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4108 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4109 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4117 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4121 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4130 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4138 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4139 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4140 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4141 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4149 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4152 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4155 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4156 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4159 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4161 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4162 the TODO entry about it.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4176 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4177 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4184 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4185 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4186 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4187 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4207 (this appears to be logal).
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4214 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4215 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4216 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4217 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4230 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4231 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4232 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4233 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4246 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4260 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4261 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4262 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4283 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4284 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4285 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4286 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4287 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4288 notice until v2 is complete.
4289 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4290 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4291 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4292 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4293 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4294 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4296 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4297 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4298 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4299 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4319 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4333 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4334 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4335 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4336 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4344 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4345 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4346 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4354 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4355 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4362 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4366 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4369 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4383 depend on the build and install targets.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4390 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4394 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4407 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4416 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4417 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4418 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4419 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4420 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4421 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4423 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4424 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4425 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4426 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4427 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4428 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4429 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4433 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4439 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4448 right place. Closes: #55065
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4452 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4462 * Copyright date updates.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4469 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4505 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4508 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4509 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4510 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4511 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4512 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4513 bits until all files have been registered.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_installmanpages:
4520 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4521 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4522 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4523 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4524 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4525 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4526 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4527 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4528 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4529 otherwise change the result at all.
4531 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4532 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4533 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4534 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4535 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4540 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4549 act on files that don't exist.
4550 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4551 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4552 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4554 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4555 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4556 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4557 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4561 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4576 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4580 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4583 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4585 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4586 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4587 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4591 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4594 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4595 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4596 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4597 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4598 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4599 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4600 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4602 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4604 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4608 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4615 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4630 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4649 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4650 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4651 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4652 I made some changes, though:
4653 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4654 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4655 that is a clear violation of policy.
4656 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4657 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4658 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4659 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4660 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4661 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4662 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4663 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4664 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4666 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4679 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4686 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4687 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4708 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4709 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4710 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4711 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4712 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4713 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4714 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4728 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4729 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4742 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4749 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4750 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4756 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4765 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4772 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4773 for the dependancies to be generated.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4780 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4787 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4788 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4789 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4797 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4798 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4817 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4830 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4831 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4832 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4833 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4834 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4835 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4836 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4837 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4838 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4839 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4840 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4841 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4848 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4849 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4851 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4852 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4853 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4854 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4855 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4856 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4858 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4859 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4863 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4866 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4880 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4888 for building debhelper.
4889 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4900 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4903 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4910 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4911 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4912 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4913 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4914 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4915 it's always available.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4922 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4923 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4924 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4931 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4932 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4945 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4955 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4958 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4959 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4960 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4967 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4972 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4975 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4976 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4978 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4979 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4983 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4998 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5005 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5006 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5008 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5012 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5015 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5016 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5017 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5024 things if CDPATH is set.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5037 seems to make sense for the transition.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5044 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5052 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5053 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5060 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5067 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5068 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5069 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5070 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5074 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5080 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5083 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5084 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5085 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5086 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5087 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5088 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5089 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5090 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5091 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5092 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5100 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5101 * README: mention doc/v2
5102 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5103 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5109 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5110 be using this script RSN.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5117 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5118 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5119 more than 1 init script.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5123 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5126 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5130 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Changed perl version detection.
5133 * Changed call to find.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5140 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5142 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * Really include dh_installpam.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5156 * Wrote man page for same.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5163 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5164 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5179 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5180 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5181 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5182 x bit was being set!
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5189 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5190 well. (Closes: 38900)
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5197 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5198 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5224 help from Julian Gilbey.
5225 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5226 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5227 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5228 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5229 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5230 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5231 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5264 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5271 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5278 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5288 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5291 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5310 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5311 may be deleted. (#35845)
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Various man page enhancements.
5318 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5326 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5327 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5334 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5335 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5336 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5338 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5339 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5344 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * Another very minor typo fix.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * Very minor typo fix.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5365 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5366 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5379 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5380 variables properly (#34850).
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5393 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5394 (automatically generated by build process).
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5398 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5400 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5407 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5408 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5410 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5417 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * README: minor typo fix.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5430 leave it at that. :-)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5440 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5446 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5449 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5450 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5451 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5458 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5462 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5465 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5469 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5472 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5473 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5474 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5475 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5482 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5483 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5484 Craig Small for spotting this.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5491 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5492 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5505 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5511 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5512 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5513 working on the last version of debhelper.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5520 being made. (#23255)
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5533 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5540 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5541 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5542 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5543 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5550 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5551 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5552 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5553 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5555 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5556 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5558 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5569 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5578 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5579 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5580 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5581 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5582 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5583 suidregister actually supports it.
5584 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5585 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5589 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5596 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5599 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5600 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5601 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5602 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5603 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5604 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5605 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5609 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5611 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5612 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5619 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5620 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5621 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5622 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5626 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5629 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5631 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5632 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5633 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5634 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5635 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5636 effect, either. (#30118)
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5649 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5650 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5654 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5663 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5664 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5665 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5666 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5673 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5674 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5687 packages, painlessly.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5709 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * The perl conversion is complete.
5713 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5715 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5716 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5717 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5725 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5726 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5727 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5734 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5736 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5738 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5739 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5746 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5747 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5751 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5757 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5760 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5761 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5762 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5763 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5764 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5768 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5771 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5772 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5773 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5774 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5781 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5785 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5788 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5789 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5790 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5791 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5792 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5793 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5794 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5795 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5805 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5808 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5809 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5810 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5815 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5818 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5822 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5825 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5829 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5832 sections of shared libraries.
5833 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5834 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5835 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5836 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5837 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5838 things you don't want them to.
5839 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5840 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5847 shared libraries. (#26414)
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5851 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5853 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5854 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5855 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5856 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5860 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5864 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5866 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5867 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5868 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5869 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5870 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5874 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5877 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5884 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5885 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5890 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5893 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5900 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5901 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5902 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5903 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5904 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5906 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5907 remove debian/files properly.
5908 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5909 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5910 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5911 * Removed bogus menu file.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5915 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5918 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5922 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5925 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5926 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5927 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5928 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5929 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5930 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5934 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5937 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5938 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5939 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5940 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5944 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5951 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5954 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5955 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5957 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5958 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5959 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5960 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5961 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5962 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5966 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5969 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5970 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5971 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5972 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5973 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5974 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5975 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5976 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5977 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5978 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5979 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5980 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5981 passed any switches.
5982 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5986 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5989 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5990 at all for a long while.
5991 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5992 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5993 large chunks in the process.
5994 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5995 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5996 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6001 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6004 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6006 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6014 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6015 that don't always have the same files in them.
6016 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6017 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6018 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6022 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6026 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6027 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6028 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6029 updating 27 man pages.
6030 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6031 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6032 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6033 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6034 programs act on. (#25247)
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6038 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6042 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6043 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6044 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6045 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6046 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6047 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6052 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6059 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6066 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6069 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6073 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6079 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6082 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6083 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6084 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6085 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6086 package by accident.
6087 * Is version 1.0 next?
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6091 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6094 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6095 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6099 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6102 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6103 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6104 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6105 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6106 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6108 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6116 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6117 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6121 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6124 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6128 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6131 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6132 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6137 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6143 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6146 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6147 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6152 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6161 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6162 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6163 past week. Thanks, guys!
6165 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6166 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6167 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6168 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6169 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6170 would do in the same situation.
6171 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6172 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6174 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6176 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6177 permissions changed.
6178 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6179 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6180 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6181 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6182 files are treated identically.
6183 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6184 * Minor man page fixes.
6185 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6186 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6187 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6191 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6194 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6195 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6196 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6197 use -X multiple times, too.
6198 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6199 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6203 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6206 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6207 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6214 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6218 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6221 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6222 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6223 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6224 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6225 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6226 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6227 shape if you're starting a new package.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6231 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6234 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6238 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6241 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6242 because of missing symlinks.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6246 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6252 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6255 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6256 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6257 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6258 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6259 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6261 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6262 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6266 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6268 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6269 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6270 to be changed after the fact :-)
6271 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6275 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6277 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6278 no version string after the -V.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6282 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6284 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6285 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6290 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6293 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6297 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6300 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6301 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6302 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6303 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6304 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6305 I always welcome corrections!
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6318 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6319 * Documented this new switch.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6326 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6327 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6328 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6329 no packages use the old behavior.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6336 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6337 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6341 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6344 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6354 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6357 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6361 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6364 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6365 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6366 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6370 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6379 into the source package by accident.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6383 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6386 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6387 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6388 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6389 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6390 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6391 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6396 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6400 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6401 inspired to implement some of it.
6402 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6409 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6413 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6416 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6417 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6424 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6425 have done.) (#17598)
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6441 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6444 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6448 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6451 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6452 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6459 argument processor in perl.
6460 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6461 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6462 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6463 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6470 type directories. (#16933)
6471 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6472 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6473 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6474 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6475 are supported. (#16935)
6476 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6484 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6492 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6493 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6494 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6495 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6496 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6497 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6504 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6505 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6507 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6508 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6509 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6510 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6511 a given package, or -i or -a.
6512 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6513 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6514 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6515 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6516 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6517 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6518 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6519 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6520 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6522 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6523 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6524 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6531 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6532 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6537 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6539 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6540 does not have a section.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6547 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6548 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6549 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6553 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Fixed typo #16215.
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6559 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6562 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6563 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6564 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6565 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6566 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6571 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6574 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6575 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6576 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6593 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6596 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6597 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6598 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6599 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6600 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6601 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6605 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6614 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6618 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6621 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6622 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6623 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6630 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6634 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6643 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6650 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6654 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6663 postinst, postrm, etc.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6673 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6676 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6677 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6678 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6679 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6680 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6684 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6687 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6688 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6695 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6699 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6702 installing package files into.
6703 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6708 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6712 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6716 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6718 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6722 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6725 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6729 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6732 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6733 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6734 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6735 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6739 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6741 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6742 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6743 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6744 multiple binary packages.
6745 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6746 should rebuild them with this version.
6747 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6751 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6754 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6758 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6761 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6765 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6767 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6768 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6769 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6770 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6771 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6772 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6773 debian/README.debian.
6774 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6775 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6776 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6777 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6778 in a few situations.)
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6782 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6788 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6794 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6797 * Fixed several man pages.
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6801 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6804 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6805 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6812 is ready for general use.
6813 * Added man pages for all commands.
6814 * Multiple binary package support.
6815 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6816 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6817 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6819 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6820 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6821 auto-installed as parameters.
6822 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6824 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6827 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6828 the package build directory it is to act on.
6829 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6830 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6831 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6835 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6837 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6838 ready to replace debstd.
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400