1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
30 * update french translation.
31 * Fix french misspelling.
32 * French translation update after massive man page typography
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
36 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
42 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
46 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
48 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
52 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
54 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
55 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
56 introduced by the fix to #527990.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
60 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
63 changes are planned for that mode.
64 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
65 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
66 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
67 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
68 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
69 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
70 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
71 (genesis) still uses them.
72 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
73 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
74 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
75 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
76 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
77 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
78 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
79 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
80 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
81 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
82 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
83 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
84 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
85 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
86 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
87 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
88 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
89 commands. (See #570039)
90 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
92 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
97 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
101 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
102 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
103 in control file or debhelper config files.
104 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
108 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
111 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
112 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
116 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
119 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
123 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
126 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
127 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
131 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Updated French translation.
134 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
135 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
136 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
137 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
139 * Typo. Closes: #571968
140 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
141 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
142 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
143 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
144 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
145 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
146 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
147 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
148 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
150 * dh: Improve documentation.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
154 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
156 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
157 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
158 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
162 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
165 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
169 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
172 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
176 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
179 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
180 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
181 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
182 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
183 options that they do not support.
184 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
185 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
186 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
187 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
188 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
189 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
194 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
198 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
199 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
200 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
201 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
202 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
203 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
204 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
205 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
206 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
210 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
213 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
214 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
215 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
216 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
220 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Typo. Closes: #558654
223 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
224 installed. Closes: #558782
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
228 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
231 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
232 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
233 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
234 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
235 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
239 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
241 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
242 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
243 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
244 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
248 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
251 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
252 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
256 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
258 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
262 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
264 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
265 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
266 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
267 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
268 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
269 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
270 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
271 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
272 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
273 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
274 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
275 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
276 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
277 time soon.) Closes: #554509
278 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
280 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
281 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
282 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
283 document id. Closes: #555677
284 * Typo. Closes: #555659
285 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
286 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
287 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
288 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
290 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
291 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
292 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
297 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
300 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
301 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
302 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
303 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
304 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
305 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
306 translation (#494300 part 2)
309 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
311 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
312 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
313 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
314 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
315 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
319 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
322 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
323 (It was only run once due to logging.)
324 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
325 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
326 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
327 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
328 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
329 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
330 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
331 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
332 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
333 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
337 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
341 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
344 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
345 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
349 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
352 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
353 flag with arch all/any packages.
354 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
355 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
356 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
357 situation. Closes: #540794
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
365 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
366 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
367 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
368 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
369 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
372 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
373 the default. Closes: #538201
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
378 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
382 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
383 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
384 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
385 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
386 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
388 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
389 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
390 * Above Closes: #491117
391 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
396 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
402 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
403 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
404 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
408 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
411 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
412 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
413 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
414 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
415 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
420 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
423 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
424 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
428 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
430 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
434 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
436 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
437 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
439 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
440 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
441 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
445 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
447 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
448 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
452 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
458 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
460 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
461 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
462 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
467 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
469 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
473 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
476 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
477 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
478 created by using `python' first during build and install.
480 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
485 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
487 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
491 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
493 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
494 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
498 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
500 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
504 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
506 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
510 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
512 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
513 contributed by Modestas Vainius
514 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
515 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
516 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
517 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
518 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
519 that support it. Closes: #480577
520 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
521 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
522 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
524 - Adds support for cmake.
525 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
526 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
528 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
530 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
531 that use them. The options are:
532 --sourcedir, --destdir
533 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
534 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
535 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
536 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
537 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
541 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
547 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
550 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
551 default. Closes: #537140
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
555 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
558 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
559 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
563 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
566 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
570 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
573 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
580 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
582 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
583 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
584 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
588 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
591 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
592 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
593 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
597 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
600 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
601 warning or deprecation message.
602 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
603 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
604 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
605 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
606 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
607 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
608 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
609 Closes: #534639, #357434
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
613 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
619 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
622 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
623 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
624 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
625 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
627 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
628 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
629 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
633 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
639 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
646 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
649 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
653 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
657 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
658 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
660 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
661 file support. Closes: #494914
662 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
669 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
670 parameters. Closes: #527256
671 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
672 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
673 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
677 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
681 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
682 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
683 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
687 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
690 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
691 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
692 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
696 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
699 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
700 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
702 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
703 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
704 by triggers). Closes: #521181
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
708 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
712 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
716 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
719 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
720 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
721 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
722 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
727 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
733 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
736 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
737 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
738 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
739 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
740 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
742 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
743 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
744 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
745 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
746 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
747 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
751 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
754 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
755 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
756 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
757 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
758 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
760 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
764 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
766 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
770 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
772 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
773 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
774 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
775 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
776 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
777 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
778 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
779 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
780 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
781 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
782 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
786 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
788 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
789 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
791 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
792 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
793 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
794 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
796 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
797 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
801 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
803 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
804 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
805 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
806 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
807 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
808 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
809 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
811 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
812 that uses them. Affected options are:
813 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
814 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
815 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
816 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
817 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
818 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
819 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
820 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
821 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
822 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
823 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
824 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
835 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
841 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
843 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
844 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
846 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
847 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
848 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
849 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
850 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
852 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
854 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
855 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
856 rules (see bug #509756).
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
860 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
866 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
867 * Typo. Closes: #493062
868 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
869 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
873 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
876 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
877 empty files. Closes: #490937
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
881 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
887 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
894 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
897 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
898 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
899 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
900 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
905 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
907 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
908 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
909 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
910 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
914 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
917 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
918 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
919 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
920 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
921 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
925 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
932 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
934 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
935 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
936 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
937 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
938 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
939 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
940 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
941 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
942 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
943 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
947 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
950 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
951 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
952 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
953 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
955 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
956 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
957 breaking backwards compatibility.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
961 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
964 message in perl 5.10.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
968 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
974 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Convert copyright file to new format.
977 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
984 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
991 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
992 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
993 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
994 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
995 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
996 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
997 logging by dh_listpackages.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1001 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1004 run and there are no packages of that type.
1005 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1006 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1007 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1008 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1010 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1011 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1015 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1018 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1019 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1023 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1026 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1027 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1029 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1030 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1031 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1032 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1033 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1034 planned but not yet implemented.)
1035 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1036 if the Makefile has such a target.
1037 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1038 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1039 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1040 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1041 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1042 but not yet implemented.)
1043 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1044 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1045 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1046 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1047 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1049 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1051 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1052 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1054 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1055 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1056 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1061 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1064 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1065 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1069 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1071 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1072 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1073 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1077 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1083 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1089 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1092 just those installed by the program.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1096 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1099 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1100 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1104 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1107 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1108 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1109 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1110 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1114 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1117 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1118 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1122 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1125 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1126 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1130 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1133 with policy. Closes: #461392
1134 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1135 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1136 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1137 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1138 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1142 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1145 Closes: #460340, #460351
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1149 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1152 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1153 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1154 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1155 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1159 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1162 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1163 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1164 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1165 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1166 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1167 package build directory won't work.
1168 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1169 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1170 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1171 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1172 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1173 mode. Closes: #459426
1174 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1182 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1190 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1191 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1192 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1193 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1194 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1195 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1202 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1203 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1204 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1205 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1212 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1213 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1214 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1215 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1216 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1220 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1223 debian/package.triggers files.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1227 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1230 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1234 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1237 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1238 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1239 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1240 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1245 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1248 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1252 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1255 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1256 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1258 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1263 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1267 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1268 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1269 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1273 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1280 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1287 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1290 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1292 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1293 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1294 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1296 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1297 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1298 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1302 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1305 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1306 * Update urls to web page.
1307 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1308 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1309 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1310 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1317 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1318 - typo in alternatives call
1319 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1321 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1322 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1326 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1329 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1334 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1340 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1349 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1351 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1352 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1353 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1354 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1355 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1356 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1357 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1358 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1359 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1360 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1361 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1365 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1368 package install. Closes: #415717
1369 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1370 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1371 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1372 script and then remove the python files.
1373 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1374 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1375 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1376 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1377 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1378 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1379 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1380 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1381 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1382 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1383 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1384 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1385 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Correct typo in french translation
1395 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1396 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1398 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1400 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1401 Closes: #406921, #381940
1402 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1404 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1405 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1406 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1407 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1408 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1409 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1410 specified). Closes: #381851
1411 * Misc minor changes.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1415 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1422 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1423 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1433 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1434 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1437 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1438 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1440 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1441 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1442 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1443 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1447 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1450 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1453 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1457 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1463 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1469 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1470 a difficult situation.
1471 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1472 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1473 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1474 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1475 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1476 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1477 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1478 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1479 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1480 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1484 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Non-maintainer upload.
1487 * Update of dh_python
1488 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1489 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1491 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1492 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1493 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1494 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1495 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1497 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1499 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Non-maintainer upload.
1502 * Update of dh_python
1503 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1504 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1505 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1506 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1507 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1508 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1509 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1510 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1511 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1512 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1514 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1515 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1516 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1517 the not too-distant future).
1518 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1519 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1520 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1521 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1522 thus made the build fail.
1524 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1526 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Non-maintainer upload.
1529 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1531 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1533 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1536 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1537 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1538 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1539 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1540 package. Closes: #301424
1541 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1542 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1543 fonts). Closes: #372686
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1547 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1553 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1554 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1555 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1556 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1557 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1558 above, but already depends on that.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1562 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1565 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1566 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1567 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1568 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1569 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1573 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1579 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1585 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1586 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1590 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1593 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1597 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1601 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1602 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1603 new version (0.24.1).
1604 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1605 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1608 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1609 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1610 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1611 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1612 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1613 new directory on their own.
1614 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1615 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1619 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1622 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1623 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1624 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1625 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1629 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1632 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1633 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1634 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1635 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1636 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1640 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1646 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1650 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1651 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1655 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1656 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1662 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1663 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1665 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1666 ignored. Closes: #337664
1668 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1673 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1679 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1684 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1685 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1686 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1687 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1688 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1689 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1690 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1694 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1697 version. Closes: #350607
1698 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1699 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1700 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1701 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1705 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1708 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1709 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1710 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1721 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1727 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1730 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1737 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1738 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1739 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1740 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1741 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1742 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1749 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1750 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1755 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1758 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1762 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1765 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1769 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1772 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1773 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1774 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1775 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1776 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1777 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1785 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1786 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1787 link. Closes: #346405
1788 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1790 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1791 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1792 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1793 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1794 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1795 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1796 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1813 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1816 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1820 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1823 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1832 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1833 installed. Closes: #342033
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1837 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1840 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1841 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1842 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1847 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1853 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1863 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1864 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1865 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1872 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1877 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1884 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1890 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1893 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1894 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1895 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1896 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1897 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1898 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1899 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1901 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1908 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1909 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1916 in standard man dirs.
1917 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1930 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1949 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1952 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1953 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1960 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1961 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1962 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1964 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1966 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1981 mode. Closes: #324161
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1988 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1989 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1990 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1991 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1999 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2000 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2001 is necesary for sanity.
2002 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2003 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2010 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2011 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2018 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2031 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2032 released, so use at your own risk.
2033 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2034 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2036 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2037 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2038 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2039 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2040 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2041 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2042 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2043 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2044 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2045 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2046 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2047 including twice per config file line now..
2048 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2049 and simplfy the rules file.
2050 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2051 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2052 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2054 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2055 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2062 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2069 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2076 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2083 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2084 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2085 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2086 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2087 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2088 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2095 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2096 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2097 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2102 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2105 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2106 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2114 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2115 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2116 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2124 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2125 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2126 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2136 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2146 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2147 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2148 unknown. Closes: #282924
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2159 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Spanish man page updates.
2162 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2176 * dh_desktop: reindent
2177 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2178 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2190 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2196 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2200 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2203 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2204 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2208 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2230 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2237 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2238 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2239 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2240 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2241 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2242 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2244 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2245 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2246 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2247 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2248 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2249 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2250 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2251 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2252 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2253 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2254 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2255 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2256 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2257 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2258 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2259 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2273 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2277 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2280 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2287 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2294 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2304 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2310 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2319 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2320 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2321 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2328 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2335 but occasionally right and necessary.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2342 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2343 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2344 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2345 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2346 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2353 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2355 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2356 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2357 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2358 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2359 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2360 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2361 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2362 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2363 postinst scripts for udebs.
2364 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2368 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2371 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2373 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2374 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2378 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2384 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2401 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2405 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2408 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2415 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2418 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2419 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2429 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2432 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2436 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2439 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2440 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2441 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2443 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2445 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2446 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2447 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2451 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2454 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2459 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2462 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2463 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2464 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2475 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2484 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2485 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2486 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2487 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2488 associated -dbg packages.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2495 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2502 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2509 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2516 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2524 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2531 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2539 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2547 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2548 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2549 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2550 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2551 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2552 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2553 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2554 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2555 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2556 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2563 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2571 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2572 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2579 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2580 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2588 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2595 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2602 out section number. Closes: #204731
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2628 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2629 removal. Closes: #204286
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2636 renaming. Closes: #203548
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2643 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2644 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2660 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2666 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2669 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2670 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2671 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2678 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2679 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2699 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2707 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2714 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2716 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2717 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2724 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2732 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2744 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2751 it break hard links (see #188663).
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2755 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2758 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2768 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2772 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2773 debconf-mergetemplates
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2777 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2780 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2784 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2787 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2794 * Update debhelper(1).
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2801 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2802 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2803 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2804 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2805 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2812 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2813 the shell. Closes: #178524
2814 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2818 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2821 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2828 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2835 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2836 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2837 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2838 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2846 files from installation.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2850 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2853 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2854 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2861 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2865 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2868 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2872 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2888 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2889 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2891 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2895 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2898 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2899 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2900 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2901 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2905 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2908 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2915 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2916 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2920 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2924 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2929 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2939 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2940 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2941 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2949 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2950 practice. Closes: #163303
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2970 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2972 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2973 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2974 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2975 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2976 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2983 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3004 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3009 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3034 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3037 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3038 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3039 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3040 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3061 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3062 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3069 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3070 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3071 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3072 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3073 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3080 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3082 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3090 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3097 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3098 right thing. Closes: #150644
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3102 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Stupid, evil typo.
3105 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3116 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3119 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3120 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3125 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3134 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3141 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3142 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3150 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3163 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3164 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Removing perl warning message.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3183 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3184 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3185 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3186 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3187 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3188 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3189 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3190 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3200 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3207 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3210 debconf-mergetemplate.
3211 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3212 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3219 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3220 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3221 dh_install, which ...
3222 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3223 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3224 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3225 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3226 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3227 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3228 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3229 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3230 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3231 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3232 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3233 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3234 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3235 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3236 other minor changes.
3237 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3238 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3239 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3240 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3241 course there's -X ..)
3242 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3243 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3244 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3246 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3247 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3248 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3249 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3250 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3255 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3261 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3264 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3268 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3274 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3295 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3296 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3297 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3298 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3300 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3301 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3305 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3311 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3314 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3318 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3321 upset. Closes: #131322
3323 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3325 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3328 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3329 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3330 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3331 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3332 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3333 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3334 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3335 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3336 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3337 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3338 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3339 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3340 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3341 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3342 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3344 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3348 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3351 - Better indenting of generated code.
3352 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3356 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3360 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3361 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3362 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3363 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3364 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3365 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3366 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3370 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3373 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3377 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3380 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3381 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3382 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3383 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3384 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3385 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3386 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3387 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3388 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3389 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3390 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3391 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3392 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3393 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3394 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3399 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3405 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3408 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3409 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3413 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3416 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3417 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3421 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3427 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3430 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3431 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3432 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3433 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3434 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3439 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3445 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3448 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3452 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3455 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3460 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3466 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3469 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3483 Also some indentation fixes.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3487 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3490 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3491 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3492 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3493 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3494 Closes: #106514, #85520
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3498 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3504 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3510 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3516 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3522 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3528 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3531 change it in debhelper v4..
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3535 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3541 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3544 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3548 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3551 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3555 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3561 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3564 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3565 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3566 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3567 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3568 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3569 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3570 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3571 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3572 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3573 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3574 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3575 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3579 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3582 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3586 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3593 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3596 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3597 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3598 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3599 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3600 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3601 program those options go to. So, for example,
3602 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3603 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3604 something complex. Closes: #89311
3605 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3609 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3612 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3613 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3614 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3621 through loop. Closes: #98598
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Missing semi-colon.
3628 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3629 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3633 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3636 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3637 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3638 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3645 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3646 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3653 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3660 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3661 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3665 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3668 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3669 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3670 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3677 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3678 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3679 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3683 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3686 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3690 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3696 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3702 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3708 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3714 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3717 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3721 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3724 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3725 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3726 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3727 followed. Closes: #85483
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3731 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3734 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3735 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3739 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3742 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3743 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3744 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3745 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3746 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3747 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3748 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3749 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3750 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3751 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3752 Closes: #88464, #77743
3753 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3754 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3755 us to deal with that gracefully.
3756 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3758 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3759 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3760 a while, Closes: #51225
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3764 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3770 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3773 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3777 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3781 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3786 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3789 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3790 don't make packlist files.
3791 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3792 debhelper coding standards.
3793 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3794 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3798 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3801 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3805 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3808 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3809 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3810 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3811 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3812 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3813 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3814 but is mildly deprecated.
3815 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3816 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3817 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3818 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3819 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3820 switching to statoverrides..
3821 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3822 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3823 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3824 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3825 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3826 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3828 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3829 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3830 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3831 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3832 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3833 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3834 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3835 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3836 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3838 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3839 variable names, pod man pages).
3840 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3841 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3842 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3843 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3844 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3845 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3846 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3866 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3872 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3873 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3874 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3878 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3880 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3881 they were previously ignored.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3887 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3888 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3894 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3895 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3896 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3900 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3902 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3908 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3909 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3915 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3916 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3917 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3918 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3919 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3920 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3921 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3922 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3923 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3924 it is an obsolete program.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3930 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3938 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3944 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3948 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3950 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * typo: Closes, #78567
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3981 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3982 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3983 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3984 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3985 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3992 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4000 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4001 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4002 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4003 backwards-compatibility.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4010 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4011 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4012 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4013 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4014 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4015 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4017 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4018 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4019 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4021 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4023 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4024 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4025 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4026 should now be raised to severity important..
4027 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4028 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4035 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4058 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4068 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4069 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4070 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4071 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4084 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4085 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4086 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4087 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4088 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4089 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4097 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4107 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4110 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4118 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4119 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4120 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4121 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4129 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4132 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4135 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4136 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4139 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4141 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4142 the TODO entry about it.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4156 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4157 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4164 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4165 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4166 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4167 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4171 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4187 (this appears to be logal).
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4194 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4195 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4196 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4197 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4210 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4211 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4212 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4213 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4226 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4240 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4241 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4242 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4263 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4264 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4265 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4266 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4267 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4268 notice until v2 is complete.
4269 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4270 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4271 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4272 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4273 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4274 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4276 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4277 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4278 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4279 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4299 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4313 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4314 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4315 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4316 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4324 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4325 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4326 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4334 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4335 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4342 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4349 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4363 depend on the build and install targets.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4370 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4396 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4397 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4398 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4399 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4400 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4401 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4403 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4404 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4405 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4406 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4407 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4408 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4409 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4413 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4419 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4428 right place. Closes: #55065
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4432 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4439 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4442 * Copyright date updates.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4446 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4449 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4454 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4467 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4473 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4479 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4488 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4489 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4490 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4491 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4492 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4493 bits until all files have been registered.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4497 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_installmanpages:
4500 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4501 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4502 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4503 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4504 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4505 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4506 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4507 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4508 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4509 otherwise change the result at all.
4511 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4512 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4513 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4514 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4515 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4529 act on files that don't exist.
4530 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4531 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4532 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4534 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4535 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4536 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4537 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4541 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4547 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4553 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4556 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4560 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4563 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4565 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4566 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4567 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4571 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4574 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4575 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4576 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4577 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4578 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4579 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4580 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4582 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4584 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4588 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4595 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4610 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4614 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4629 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4630 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4631 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4632 I made some changes, though:
4633 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4634 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4635 that is a clear violation of policy.
4636 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4637 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4638 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4639 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4640 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4641 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4642 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4643 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4644 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4646 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4656 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4659 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4666 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4667 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4688 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4689 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4690 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4691 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4692 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4693 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4694 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4708 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4709 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4722 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4729 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4730 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4736 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4745 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4752 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4753 for the dependancies to be generated.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4760 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4767 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4768 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4769 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4777 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4778 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4797 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4810 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4811 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4812 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4813 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4814 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4815 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4816 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4817 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4818 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4819 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4820 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4821 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4825 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4828 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4829 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4831 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4832 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4833 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4834 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4835 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4836 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4838 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4839 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4846 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4850 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4860 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4868 for building debhelper.
4869 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4880 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4883 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4887 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4890 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4891 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4892 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4893 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4894 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4895 it's always available.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4902 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4903 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4904 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4911 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4912 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4916 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4922 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4925 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4935 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4938 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4939 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4940 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4947 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4955 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4956 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4958 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4959 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4969 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4978 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4985 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4986 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4988 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4992 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4995 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4996 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4997 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5004 things if CDPATH is set.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5014 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5017 seems to make sense for the transition.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5021 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5024 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5032 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5033 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5037 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5040 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5047 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5048 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5049 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5050 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5063 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5064 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5065 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5066 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5067 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5068 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5069 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5070 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5071 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5072 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5080 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5081 * README: mention doc/v2
5082 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5083 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5089 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5090 be using this script RSN.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5097 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5098 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5099 more than 1 init script.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5103 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5106 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Changed perl version detection.
5113 * Changed call to find.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5120 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5122 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Really include dh_installpam.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5136 * Wrote man page for same.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5143 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5144 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5159 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5160 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5161 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5162 x bit was being set!
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5166 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5169 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5170 well. (Closes: 38900)
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5177 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5178 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5204 help from Julian Gilbey.
5205 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5206 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5207 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5208 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5209 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5210 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5211 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5244 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5251 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5258 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5271 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5275 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5290 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5291 may be deleted. (#35845)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Various man page enhancements.
5298 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5306 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5307 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5314 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5315 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5316 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5318 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5319 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Another very minor typo fix.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * Very minor typo fix.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5345 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5346 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5350 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5359 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5360 variables properly (#34850).
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5370 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5373 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5374 (automatically generated by build process).
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5380 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5387 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5388 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5390 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5397 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * README: minor typo fix.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5410 leave it at that. :-)
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5429 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5430 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5431 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5438 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5445 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5452 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5453 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5454 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5455 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5462 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5463 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5464 Craig Small for spotting this.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5468 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5471 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5472 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5482 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5485 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5491 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5492 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5493 working on the last version of debhelper.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5500 being made. (#23255)
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5513 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5520 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5521 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5522 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5523 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5530 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5531 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5532 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5533 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5535 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5536 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5538 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5558 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5559 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5560 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5561 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5562 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5563 suidregister actually supports it.
5564 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5565 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5569 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5576 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5579 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5580 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5581 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5582 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5583 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5584 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5585 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5589 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5591 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5592 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5599 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5600 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5601 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5602 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5609 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5611 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5612 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5613 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5614 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5615 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5616 effect, either. (#30118)
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5626 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5629 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5630 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5643 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5644 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5645 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5646 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5653 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5654 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5667 packages, painlessly.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5677 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5679 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5683 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * The perl conversion is complete.
5693 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5695 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5696 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5697 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5702 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5705 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5706 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5707 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5714 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5716 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5718 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5719 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5726 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5727 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5740 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5741 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5742 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5743 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5744 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5751 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5752 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5753 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5754 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5761 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5768 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5769 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5770 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5771 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5772 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5773 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5774 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5775 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5779 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5785 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5788 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5789 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5790 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5795 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5798 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5802 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5805 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5809 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5812 sections of shared libraries.
5813 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5814 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5815 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5816 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5817 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5818 things you don't want them to.
5819 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5820 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5824 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5827 shared libraries. (#26414)
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5831 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5833 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5834 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5835 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5836 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5840 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5844 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5846 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5847 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5848 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5849 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5850 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5854 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5857 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5861 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5864 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5865 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5870 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5873 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5877 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5880 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5881 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5882 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5883 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5884 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5886 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5887 remove debian/files properly.
5888 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5889 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5890 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5891 * Removed bogus menu file.
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5898 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5905 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5906 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5907 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5908 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5909 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5910 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5917 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5918 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5919 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5920 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5924 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5931 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5934 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5935 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5937 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5938 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5939 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5940 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5941 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5942 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5946 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5949 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5950 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5951 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5952 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5953 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5954 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5955 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5956 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5957 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5958 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5959 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5960 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5961 passed any switches.
5962 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5966 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5969 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5970 at all for a long while.
5971 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5972 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5973 large chunks in the process.
5974 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5975 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5976 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5981 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5984 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5986 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5991 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5994 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5995 that don't always have the same files in them.
5996 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5997 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5998 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6002 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6006 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6007 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6008 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6009 updating 27 man pages.
6010 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6011 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6012 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6013 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6014 programs act on. (#25247)
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6018 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6022 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6023 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6024 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6025 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6026 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6027 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6032 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6049 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6053 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6059 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6062 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6063 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6064 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6065 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6066 package by accident.
6067 * Is version 1.0 next?
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6071 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6074 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6075 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6079 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6081 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6082 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6083 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6084 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6085 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6086 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6088 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6093 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6096 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6097 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6101 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6104 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6108 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6111 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6112 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6117 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6123 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6126 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6127 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6138 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6141 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6142 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6143 past week. Thanks, guys!
6145 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6146 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6147 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6148 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6149 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6150 would do in the same situation.
6151 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6152 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6154 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6156 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6157 permissions changed.
6158 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6159 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6160 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6161 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6162 files are treated identically.
6163 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6164 * Minor man page fixes.
6165 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6166 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6167 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6171 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6174 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6175 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6176 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6177 use -X multiple times, too.
6178 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6179 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6183 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6186 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6187 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6191 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6194 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6201 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6202 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6203 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6204 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6205 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6206 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6207 shape if you're starting a new package.
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6214 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6218 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6220 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6221 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6222 because of missing symlinks.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6235 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6236 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6237 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6238 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6239 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6241 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6242 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6246 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6248 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6249 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6250 to be changed after the fact :-)
6251 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6255 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6257 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6258 no version string after the -V.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6262 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6264 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6265 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6270 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6273 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6277 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6280 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6281 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6282 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6283 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6284 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6285 I always welcome corrections!
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6289 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6295 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6298 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6299 * Documented this new switch.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6306 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6307 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6308 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6309 no packages use the old behavior.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6313 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6316 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6317 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6321 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6324 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6328 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6337 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6341 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6343 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6344 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6345 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6346 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6350 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6356 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6359 into the source package by accident.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6363 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6366 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6367 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6368 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6369 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6370 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6371 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6376 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6378 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6380 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6381 inspired to implement some of it.
6382 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6386 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6389 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6393 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6396 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6397 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6401 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6404 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6405 have done.) (#17598)
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6409 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6415 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6424 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6428 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6431 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6432 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6436 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6439 argument processor in perl.
6440 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6441 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6442 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6443 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6450 type directories. (#16933)
6451 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6452 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6453 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6454 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6455 are supported. (#16935)
6456 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6464 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6468 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6472 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6473 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6474 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6475 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6476 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6477 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6484 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6485 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6487 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6488 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6489 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6490 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6491 a given package, or -i or -a.
6492 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6493 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6494 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6495 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6496 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6497 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6498 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6499 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6500 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6502 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6503 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6504 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6508 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6511 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6512 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6520 does not have a section.
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6524 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6527 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6528 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6529 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6533 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * Fixed typo #16215.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6542 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6543 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6544 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6545 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6546 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6551 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6554 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6555 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6556 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6561 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6573 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6576 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6577 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6578 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6579 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6580 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6581 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6585 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6591 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6594 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6598 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6601 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6602 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6603 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6607 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6610 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6623 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6630 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6634 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6643 postinst, postrm, etc.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6647 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6653 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6656 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6657 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6658 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6659 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6660 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6664 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6667 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6668 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6672 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6675 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6679 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6682 installing package files into.
6683 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6692 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6696 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6698 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6702 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6704 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6705 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6709 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6711 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6712 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6713 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6714 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6715 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6719 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6721 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6722 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6723 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6724 multiple binary packages.
6725 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6726 should rebuild them with this version.
6727 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6731 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6734 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6738 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6741 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6745 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6748 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6749 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6750 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6751 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6752 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6753 debian/README.debian.
6754 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6755 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6756 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6757 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6758 in a few situations.)
6760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6762 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6764 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6768 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6770 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6774 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6777 * Fixed several man pages.
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6781 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6784 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6785 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6789 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6791 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6792 is ready for general use.
6793 * Added man pages for all commands.
6794 * Multiple binary package support.
6795 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6796 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6797 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6799 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6800 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6801 auto-installed as parameters.
6802 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6804 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6807 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6808 the package build directory it is to act on.
6809 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6810 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6811 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6815 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6817 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6818 ready to replace debstd.
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400