1 debhelper (8.1.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
4 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
5 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:43:12 -0400
10 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
13 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
17 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
20 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
22 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
23 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
24 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
25 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
26 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
30 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
33 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
34 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
35 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
36 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
37 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
38 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
40 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
41 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
42 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
43 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
44 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
45 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
46 (Thanks, David Prévot)
47 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
48 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
49 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
50 target fails. Closes: #601037
51 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
53 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
54 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
55 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
57 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
59 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
60 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
62 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
63 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
64 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
66 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
68 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
71 * update french translation.
72 * Fix french misspelling.
73 * French translation update after massive man page typography
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
77 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
83 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
87 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
89 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
93 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
95 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
96 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
97 introduced by the fix to #527990.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
101 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
104 changes are planned for that mode.
105 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
106 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
107 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
108 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
109 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
110 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
111 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
112 (genesis) still uses them.
113 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
114 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
115 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
116 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
117 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
118 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
119 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
120 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
121 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
122 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
123 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
124 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
125 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
126 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
127 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
128 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
129 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
130 commands. (See #570039)
131 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
133 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
138 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
142 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
143 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
144 in control file or debhelper config files.
145 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
149 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
152 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
153 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
157 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
160 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
164 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
167 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
168 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
172 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Updated French translation.
175 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
176 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
177 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
178 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
180 * Typo. Closes: #571968
181 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
182 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
183 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
184 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
185 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
186 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
187 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
188 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
189 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
191 * dh: Improve documentation.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
195 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
197 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
198 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
199 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
203 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
206 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
210 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
213 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
217 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
220 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
221 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
222 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
223 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
224 options that they do not support.
225 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
226 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
227 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
228 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
229 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
230 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
239 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
240 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
241 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
242 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
243 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
244 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
245 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
246 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
247 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
251 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
254 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
255 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
256 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
257 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
261 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Typo. Closes: #558654
264 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
265 installed. Closes: #558782
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
269 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
272 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
273 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
274 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
275 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
276 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
280 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
282 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
283 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
284 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
285 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
289 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
292 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
293 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
297 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
299 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
303 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
305 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
306 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
307 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
308 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
309 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
310 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
311 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
312 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
313 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
314 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
315 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
316 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
317 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
318 time soon.) Closes: #554509
319 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
321 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
322 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
323 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
324 document id. Closes: #555677
325 * Typo. Closes: #555659
326 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
327 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
328 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
329 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
331 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
332 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
333 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
338 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
341 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
342 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
343 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
344 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
345 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
346 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
347 translation (#494300 part 2)
350 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
352 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
353 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
354 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
355 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
356 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
360 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
363 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
364 (It was only run once due to logging.)
365 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
366 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
367 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
368 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
369 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
370 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
371 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
372 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
373 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
374 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
378 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
382 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
385 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
386 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
390 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
393 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
394 flag with arch all/any packages.
395 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
396 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
397 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
398 situation. Closes: #540794
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
402 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
406 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
407 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
408 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
409 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
410 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
413 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
414 the default. Closes: #538201
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
419 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
423 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
424 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
425 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
426 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
427 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
429 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
430 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
431 * Above Closes: #491117
432 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
437 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
443 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
444 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
445 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
449 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
452 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
453 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
454 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
455 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
456 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
461 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
464 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
465 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
469 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
471 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
475 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
477 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
478 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
480 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
481 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
482 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
486 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
488 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
489 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
493 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
499 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
501 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
502 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
503 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
508 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
510 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
514 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
517 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
518 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
519 created by using `python' first during build and install.
521 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
526 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
528 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
532 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
534 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
535 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
539 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
541 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
545 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
547 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
551 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
553 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
554 contributed by Modestas Vainius
555 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
556 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
557 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
558 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
559 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
560 that support it. Closes: #480577
561 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
562 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
563 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
565 - Adds support for cmake.
566 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
567 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
569 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
571 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
572 that use them. The options are:
573 --sourcedir, --destdir
574 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
575 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
576 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
577 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
578 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
582 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
588 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
591 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
592 default. Closes: #537140
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
596 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
599 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
600 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
604 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
607 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
611 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
614 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
621 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
623 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
624 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
625 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
629 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
632 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
633 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
634 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
638 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
641 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
642 warning or deprecation message.
643 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
644 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
645 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
646 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
647 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
648 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
649 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
650 Closes: #534639, #357434
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
654 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
663 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
664 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
665 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
666 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
668 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
669 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
670 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
674 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
680 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
687 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
690 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
694 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
698 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
699 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
701 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
702 file support. Closes: #494914
703 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
710 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
711 parameters. Closes: #527256
712 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
713 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
714 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
718 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
722 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
723 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
724 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
728 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
731 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
732 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
733 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
737 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
740 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
741 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
743 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
744 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
745 by triggers). Closes: #521181
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
749 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
753 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
757 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
760 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
761 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
762 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
763 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
768 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
774 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
777 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
778 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
779 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
780 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
781 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
783 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
784 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
785 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
786 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
787 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
788 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
792 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
795 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
796 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
797 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
798 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
799 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
801 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
805 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
807 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
811 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
813 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
814 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
815 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
816 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
817 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
818 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
819 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
820 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
821 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
822 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
823 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
827 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
829 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
830 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
832 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
833 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
834 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
835 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
837 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
838 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
842 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
844 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
845 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
846 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
847 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
848 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
849 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
850 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
852 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
853 that uses them. Affected options are:
854 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
855 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
856 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
857 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
858 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
859 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
860 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
861 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
862 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
863 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
864 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
865 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
869 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
876 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
882 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
884 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
885 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
887 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
888 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
889 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
890 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
891 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
893 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
895 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
896 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
897 rules (see bug #509756).
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
901 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
907 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
908 * Typo. Closes: #493062
909 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
910 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
914 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
917 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
918 empty files. Closes: #490937
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
922 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
928 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
935 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
938 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
939 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
940 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
941 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
946 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
948 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
949 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
950 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
951 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
955 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
958 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
959 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
960 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
961 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
962 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
966 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
973 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
975 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
976 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
977 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
978 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
979 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
980 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
981 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
982 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
983 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
984 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
991 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
992 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
993 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
994 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
996 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
997 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
998 breaking backwards compatibility.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1002 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1005 message in perl 5.10.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1009 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1015 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1018 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1025 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1032 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1033 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1034 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1035 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1036 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1037 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1038 logging by dh_listpackages.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1042 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1045 run and there are no packages of that type.
1046 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1047 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1048 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1049 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1051 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1052 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1056 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1059 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1060 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1064 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1067 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1068 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1070 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1071 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1072 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1073 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1074 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1075 planned but not yet implemented.)
1076 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1077 if the Makefile has such a target.
1078 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1079 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1080 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1081 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1082 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1083 but not yet implemented.)
1084 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1085 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1086 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1087 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1088 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1090 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1092 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1093 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1095 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1096 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1097 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1102 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1105 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1106 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1110 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1112 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1113 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1114 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1118 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1124 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1130 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1133 just those installed by the program.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1137 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1140 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1141 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1145 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1148 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1149 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1150 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1151 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1155 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1158 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1159 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1163 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1166 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1167 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1171 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1174 with policy. Closes: #461392
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1176 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1177 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1178 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1179 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1183 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1186 Closes: #460340, #460351
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1190 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1193 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1194 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1195 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1196 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1200 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1203 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1204 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1205 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1206 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1207 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1208 package build directory won't work.
1209 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1210 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1211 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1212 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1213 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1214 mode. Closes: #459426
1215 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1220 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1223 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1227 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1231 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1232 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1233 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1234 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1235 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1236 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1240 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1243 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1244 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1245 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1246 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1250 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1253 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1254 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1255 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1256 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1257 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1261 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1264 debian/package.triggers files.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1271 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1278 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1279 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1280 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1281 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1286 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1289 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1296 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1297 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1299 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1304 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1308 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1309 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1310 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1328 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1331 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1333 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1334 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1335 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1337 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1338 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1339 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1343 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1346 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1347 * Update urls to web page.
1348 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1349 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1350 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1351 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1355 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1358 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1359 - typo in alternatives call
1360 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1362 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1363 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1370 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1375 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1381 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1390 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1392 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1393 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1394 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1395 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1396 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1397 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1398 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1399 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1400 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1401 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1402 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1406 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1409 package install. Closes: #415717
1410 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1411 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1412 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1413 script and then remove the python files.
1414 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1415 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1416 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1417 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1418 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1419 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1420 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1421 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1422 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1423 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1424 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1425 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1426 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1430 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Correct typo in french translation
1436 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1437 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1439 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1441 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1442 Closes: #406921, #381940
1443 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1445 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1446 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1447 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1448 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1449 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1450 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1451 specified). Closes: #381851
1452 * Misc minor changes.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1456 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1463 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1464 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1468 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1474 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1475 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1478 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1479 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1481 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1482 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1483 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1484 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1488 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1491 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1494 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1498 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1504 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1510 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1511 a difficult situation.
1512 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1513 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1514 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1515 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1516 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1517 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1518 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1519 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1520 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1521 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1525 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Non-maintainer upload.
1528 * Update of dh_python
1529 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1530 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1532 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1533 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1534 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1535 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1536 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1538 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1540 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Non-maintainer upload.
1543 * Update of dh_python
1544 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1545 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1546 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1547 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1548 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1549 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1550 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1551 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1552 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1553 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1555 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1556 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1557 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1558 the not too-distant future).
1559 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1560 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1561 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1562 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1563 thus made the build fail.
1565 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1567 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Non-maintainer upload.
1570 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1572 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1574 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1577 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1578 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1579 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1580 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1581 package. Closes: #301424
1582 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1583 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1584 fonts). Closes: #372686
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1588 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1594 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1595 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1596 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1597 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1598 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1599 above, but already depends on that.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1603 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1606 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1607 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1608 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1609 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1610 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1614 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1620 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1626 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1627 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1631 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1634 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1638 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1642 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1643 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1644 new version (0.24.1).
1645 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1646 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1649 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1650 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1651 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1652 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1653 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1654 new directory on their own.
1655 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1656 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1660 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1663 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1664 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1665 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1666 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1670 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1673 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1674 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1675 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1676 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1677 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1681 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1687 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1691 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1692 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1696 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1697 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1701 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1703 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1704 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1706 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1707 ignored. Closes: #337664
1709 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1720 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1725 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1726 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1727 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1728 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1729 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1730 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1731 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1735 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1738 version. Closes: #350607
1739 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1740 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1741 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1742 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1749 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1750 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1751 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1755 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1762 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1768 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1771 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1778 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1779 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1780 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1781 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1782 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1783 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1787 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1790 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1791 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1796 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1799 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1803 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1806 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1813 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1814 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1815 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1816 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1817 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1818 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1826 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1827 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1828 link. Closes: #346405
1829 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1831 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1832 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1833 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1834 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1835 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1836 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1837 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1841 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1857 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1861 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1864 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1873 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1874 installed. Closes: #342033
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1881 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1882 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1883 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1888 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1904 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1905 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1906 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1910 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1913 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1918 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1925 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1931 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1934 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1935 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1936 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1937 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1938 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1939 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1940 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1942 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1949 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1950 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1957 in standard man dirs.
1958 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1971 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1990 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1993 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1994 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2001 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2002 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2003 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2005 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2007 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2022 mode. Closes: #324161
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2029 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2030 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2031 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2032 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2040 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2041 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2042 is necesary for sanity.
2043 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2044 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2051 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2052 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2059 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2072 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2073 released, so use at your own risk.
2074 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2075 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2077 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2078 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2079 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2080 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2081 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2082 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2083 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2084 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2085 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2086 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2087 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2088 including twice per config file line now..
2089 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2090 and simplfy the rules file.
2091 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2092 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2093 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2095 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2096 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2103 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2110 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2117 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2124 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2125 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2126 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2127 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2128 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2129 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2136 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2137 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2138 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2146 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2147 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2152 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2155 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2156 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2157 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2162 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2165 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2166 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2167 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2187 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2188 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2189 unknown. Closes: #282924
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Spanish man page updates.
2203 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2217 * dh_desktop: reindent
2218 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2219 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2231 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2237 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2241 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2244 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2245 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2249 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2271 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2278 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2279 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2280 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2281 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2282 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2283 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2285 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2286 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2287 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2288 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2289 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2290 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2291 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2292 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2293 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2294 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2295 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2296 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2297 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2298 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2299 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2300 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2314 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2318 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2321 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2328 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2335 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2360 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2361 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2362 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2366 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2369 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2376 but occasionally right and necessary.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2383 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2384 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2385 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2386 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2387 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2394 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2396 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2397 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2398 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2399 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2400 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2401 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2402 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2403 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2404 postinst scripts for udebs.
2405 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2409 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2412 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2414 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2415 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2442 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2449 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2453 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2456 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2459 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2460 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2473 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2480 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2481 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2482 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2484 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2486 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2487 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2488 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2495 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2503 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2504 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2505 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2516 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2525 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2526 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2527 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2528 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2529 associated -dbg packages.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2536 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2543 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2550 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2557 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2565 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2572 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2580 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2588 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2589 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2590 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2591 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2592 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2593 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2594 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2595 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2596 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2597 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2604 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2612 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2613 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2620 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2621 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2629 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2636 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2643 out section number. Closes: #204731
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2669 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2670 removal. Closes: #204286
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2677 renaming. Closes: #203548
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2684 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2685 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2701 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2707 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2710 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2711 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2712 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2719 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2720 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2740 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2748 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2755 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2757 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2758 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2765 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2773 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2785 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2792 it break hard links (see #188663).
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2799 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2803 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2813 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2814 debconf-mergetemplates
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2818 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2821 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2825 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2828 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2835 * Update debhelper(1).
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2842 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2843 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2844 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2845 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2846 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2850 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2853 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2854 the shell. Closes: #178524
2855 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2859 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2862 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2866 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2869 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2873 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2876 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2877 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2878 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2879 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2887 files from installation.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2894 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2895 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2899 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2902 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2906 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2909 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2913 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2919 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2929 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2930 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2932 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2936 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2939 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2940 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2941 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2942 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2946 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2949 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2953 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2956 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2957 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2961 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2965 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2980 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2981 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2982 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2990 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2991 practice. Closes: #163303
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3011 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3013 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3014 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3015 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3016 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3017 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3024 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3045 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3075 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3078 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3079 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3080 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3081 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3102 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3103 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3110 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3111 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3112 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3113 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3114 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3121 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3123 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3131 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3135 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3138 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3139 right thing. Closes: #150644
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Stupid, evil typo.
3146 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3160 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3161 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3175 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3182 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3183 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3191 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3204 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3205 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3215 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Removing perl warning message.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3221 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3224 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3225 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3226 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3227 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3228 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3229 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3230 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3231 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3235 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3248 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3251 debconf-mergetemplate.
3252 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3253 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3260 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3261 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3262 dh_install, which ...
3263 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3264 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3265 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3266 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3267 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3268 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3269 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3270 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3271 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3272 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3273 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3274 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3275 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3276 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3277 other minor changes.
3278 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3279 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3280 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3281 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3282 course there's -X ..)
3283 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3284 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3285 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3287 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3288 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3289 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3290 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3291 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3296 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3302 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3305 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3309 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3315 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3321 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3333 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3336 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3337 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3338 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3339 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3341 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3342 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3346 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3352 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3355 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3359 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3362 upset. Closes: #131322
3364 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3366 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3369 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3370 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3371 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3372 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3373 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3374 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3375 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3376 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3377 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3378 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3379 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3380 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3381 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3382 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3383 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3385 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3392 - Better indenting of generated code.
3393 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3397 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3401 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3402 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3403 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3404 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3405 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3406 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3407 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3411 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3414 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3418 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3421 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3422 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3423 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3424 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3425 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3426 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3427 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3428 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3429 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3430 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3431 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3432 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3433 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3434 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3435 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3440 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3446 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3449 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3450 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3454 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3457 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3458 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3462 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3468 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3471 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3472 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3473 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3474 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3475 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3480 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3486 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3489 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3496 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3501 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3507 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3510 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3514 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3520 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3524 Also some indentation fixes.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3528 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3531 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3532 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3533 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3534 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3535 Closes: #106514, #85520
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3545 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3551 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3572 change it in debhelper v4..
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3582 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3585 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3592 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3596 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3602 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3605 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3606 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3607 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3608 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3609 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3610 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3611 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3612 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3613 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3614 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3615 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3616 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3623 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3627 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3634 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3637 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3638 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3639 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3640 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3641 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3642 program those options go to. So, for example,
3643 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3644 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3645 something complex. Closes: #89311
3646 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3653 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3654 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3655 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3659 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3662 through loop. Closes: #98598
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3666 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Missing semi-colon.
3669 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3670 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3677 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3678 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3679 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3686 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3687 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3691 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3694 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3698 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3701 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3702 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3706 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3709 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3710 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3711 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3715 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3718 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3719 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3720 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3724 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3727 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3731 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3737 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3743 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3749 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3755 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3758 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3762 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3765 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3766 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3767 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3768 followed. Closes: #85483
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3772 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3774 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3775 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3776 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3780 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3783 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3784 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3785 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3786 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3787 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3788 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3789 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3790 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3791 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3792 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3793 Closes: #88464, #77743
3794 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3795 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3796 us to deal with that gracefully.
3797 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3799 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3800 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3801 a while, Closes: #51225
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3805 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3811 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3814 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3818 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3822 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3827 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3830 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3831 don't make packlist files.
3832 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3833 debhelper coding standards.
3834 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3835 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3839 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3842 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3846 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3849 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3850 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3851 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3852 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3853 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3854 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3855 but is mildly deprecated.
3856 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3857 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3858 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3859 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3860 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3861 switching to statoverrides..
3862 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3863 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3864 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3865 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3866 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3867 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3869 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3870 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3871 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3872 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3873 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3874 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3875 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3876 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3877 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3879 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3880 variable names, pod man pages).
3881 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3882 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3883 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3884 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3885 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3886 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3887 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3904 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3907 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3913 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3914 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3915 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3921 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3922 they were previously ignored.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3928 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3929 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3935 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3936 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3937 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3943 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3949 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3950 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3954 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3956 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3957 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3958 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3959 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3960 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3961 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3962 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3963 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3964 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3965 it is an obsolete program.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3971 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3979 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3985 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3989 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3991 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * typo: Closes, #78567
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4022 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4023 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4024 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4025 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4026 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4033 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4041 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4042 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4043 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4044 backwards-compatibility.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4051 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4052 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4053 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4054 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4055 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4056 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4058 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4059 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4060 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4062 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4064 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4065 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4066 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4067 should now be raised to severity important..
4068 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4069 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4076 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4081 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4087 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4093 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4109 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4110 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4111 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4112 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4116 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4122 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4125 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4126 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4127 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4128 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4129 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4130 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4135 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4138 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4142 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4151 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4159 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4160 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4161 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4162 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4170 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4173 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4176 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4177 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4180 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4182 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4183 the TODO entry about it.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4197 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4198 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4205 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4206 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4207 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4208 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4228 (this appears to be logal).
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4235 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4236 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4237 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4238 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4251 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4252 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4253 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4254 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4267 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4281 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4282 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4283 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4304 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4305 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4306 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4307 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4308 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4309 notice until v2 is complete.
4310 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4311 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4312 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4313 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4314 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4315 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4317 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4318 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4319 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4320 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4340 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4354 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4355 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4356 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4357 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4365 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4366 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4367 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4375 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4376 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4383 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4390 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4394 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4404 depend on the build and install targets.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4411 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4428 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4437 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4438 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4439 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4440 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4441 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4442 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4444 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4445 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4446 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4447 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4448 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4449 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4450 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4454 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4460 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4469 right place. Closes: #55065
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4473 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4483 * Copyright date updates.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4490 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4501 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4508 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4514 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4529 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4530 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4531 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4532 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4533 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4534 bits until all files have been registered.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4538 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installmanpages:
4541 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4542 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4543 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4544 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4545 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4546 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4547 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4548 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4549 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4550 otherwise change the result at all.
4552 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4553 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4554 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4555 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4556 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4561 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4570 act on files that don't exist.
4571 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4572 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4573 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4575 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4576 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4577 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4578 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4582 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4588 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4594 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4597 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4601 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4604 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4606 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4607 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4608 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4612 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4615 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4616 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4617 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4618 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4619 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4620 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4621 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4623 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4625 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4629 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4636 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4648 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4651 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4670 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4671 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4672 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4673 I made some changes, though:
4674 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4675 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4676 that is a clear violation of policy.
4677 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4678 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4679 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4680 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4681 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4682 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4683 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4684 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4685 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4687 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4700 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4707 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4708 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4729 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4730 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4731 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4732 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4733 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4734 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4735 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4749 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4750 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4763 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4770 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4771 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4777 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4786 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4793 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4794 for the dependancies to be generated.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4801 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4808 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4809 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4810 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4818 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4819 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4838 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4851 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4852 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4853 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4854 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4855 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4856 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4857 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4858 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4859 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4860 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4861 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4862 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4869 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4870 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4872 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4873 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4874 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4875 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4876 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4877 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4879 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4880 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4887 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4901 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4909 for building debhelper.
4910 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4924 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4931 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4932 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4933 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4934 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4935 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4936 it's always available.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4943 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4944 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4945 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4952 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4953 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4966 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4979 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4980 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4981 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4988 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4996 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4997 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4999 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5000 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5019 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5026 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5027 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5029 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5036 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5037 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5038 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5045 things if CDPATH is set.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5058 seems to make sense for the transition.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5062 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5065 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5073 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5074 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5081 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5088 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5089 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5090 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5091 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5104 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5105 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5106 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5107 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5108 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5109 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5110 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5111 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5112 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5113 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5121 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5122 * README: mention doc/v2
5123 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5124 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5130 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5131 be using this script RSN.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5138 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5139 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5140 more than 1 init script.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5147 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Changed perl version detection.
5154 * Changed call to find.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5161 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5163 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Really include dh_installpam.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5177 * Wrote man page for same.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5184 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5185 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5200 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5201 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5202 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5203 x bit was being set!
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5210 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5211 well. (Closes: 38900)
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5218 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5219 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5245 help from Julian Gilbey.
5246 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5247 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5248 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5249 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5250 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5251 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5252 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5285 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5292 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5296 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5299 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5312 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5322 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5331 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5332 may be deleted. (#35845)
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * Various man page enhancements.
5339 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5344 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5347 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5348 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5355 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5356 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5357 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5359 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5360 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Another very minor typo fix.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5377 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * Very minor typo fix.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5383 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5386 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5387 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5400 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5401 variables properly (#34850).
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5405 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5411 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5414 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5415 (automatically generated by build process).
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5421 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5428 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5429 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5431 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5438 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * README: minor typo fix.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5448 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5451 leave it at that. :-)
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5467 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5470 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5471 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5472 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5479 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5486 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5493 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5494 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5495 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5496 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5503 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5504 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5505 Craig Small for spotting this.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5512 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5513 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5526 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5532 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5533 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5534 working on the last version of debhelper.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5541 being made. (#23255)
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5554 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5561 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5562 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5563 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5564 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5571 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5572 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5573 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5574 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5576 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5577 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5579 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5599 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5600 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5601 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5602 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5603 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5604 suidregister actually supports it.
5605 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5606 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5610 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5617 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5620 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5621 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5622 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5623 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5624 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5625 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5626 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5630 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5632 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5633 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5637 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5640 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5641 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5642 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5643 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5650 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5652 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5653 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5654 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5655 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5656 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5657 effect, either. (#30118)
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5667 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5670 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5671 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5681 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5684 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5685 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5686 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5687 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5694 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5695 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5705 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5708 packages, painlessly.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5724 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5730 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * The perl conversion is complete.
5734 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5736 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5737 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5738 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5746 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5747 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5748 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5755 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5757 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5759 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5760 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5767 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5768 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5781 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5782 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5783 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5784 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5785 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5792 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5793 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5794 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5795 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5802 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5806 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5809 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5810 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5811 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5812 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5813 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5814 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5815 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5816 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5820 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5826 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5829 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5830 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5831 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5839 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5843 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5846 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5853 sections of shared libraries.
5854 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5855 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5856 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5857 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5858 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5859 things you don't want them to.
5860 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5861 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5865 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5868 shared libraries. (#26414)
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5874 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5875 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5876 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5877 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5885 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5887 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5888 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5889 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5890 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5891 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5898 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5905 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5906 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5914 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5921 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5922 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5923 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5924 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5925 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5927 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5928 remove debian/files properly.
5929 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5930 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5931 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5932 * Removed bogus menu file.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5936 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5939 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5946 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5947 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5948 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5949 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5950 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5951 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5958 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5959 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5960 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5961 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5965 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5972 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5975 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5976 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5978 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5979 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5980 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5981 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5982 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5983 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5987 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5990 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5991 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5992 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5993 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5994 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5995 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5996 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5997 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5998 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5999 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6000 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6001 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6002 passed any switches.
6003 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6007 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6010 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6011 at all for a long while.
6012 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6013 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6014 large chunks in the process.
6015 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6016 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6017 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6022 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6025 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6027 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6032 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6035 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6036 that don't always have the same files in them.
6037 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6038 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6039 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6043 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6047 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6048 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6049 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6050 updating 27 man pages.
6051 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6052 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6053 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6054 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6055 programs act on. (#25247)
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6059 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6063 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6064 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6065 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6066 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6067 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6068 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6073 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6080 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6087 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6090 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6094 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6100 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6103 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6104 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6105 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6106 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6107 package by accident.
6108 * Is version 1.0 next?
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6115 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6116 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6120 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6123 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6124 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6125 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6126 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6127 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6129 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6137 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6138 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6142 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6145 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6149 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6152 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6153 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6164 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6167 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6168 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6173 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6182 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6183 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6184 past week. Thanks, guys!
6186 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6187 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6188 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6189 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6190 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6191 would do in the same situation.
6192 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6193 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6195 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6197 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6198 permissions changed.
6199 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6200 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6201 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6202 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6203 files are treated identically.
6204 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6205 * Minor man page fixes.
6206 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6207 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6208 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6212 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6215 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6216 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6217 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6218 use -X multiple times, too.
6219 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6220 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6224 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6227 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6228 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6232 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6235 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6239 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6242 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6243 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6244 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6245 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6246 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6247 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6248 shape if you're starting a new package.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6252 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6255 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6259 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6262 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6263 because of missing symlinks.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6273 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6276 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6277 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6278 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6279 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6280 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6282 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6283 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6287 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6289 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6290 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6291 to be changed after the fact :-)
6292 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6296 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6299 no version string after the -V.
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6305 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6306 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6311 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6314 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6318 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6321 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6322 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6323 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6324 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6325 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6326 I always welcome corrections!
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6336 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6339 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6340 * Documented this new switch.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6344 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6347 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6348 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6349 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6350 no packages use the old behavior.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6354 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6357 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6358 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6365 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6369 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6375 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6378 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6382 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6385 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6386 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6387 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6391 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6397 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6400 into the source package by accident.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6404 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6407 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6408 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6409 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6410 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6411 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6412 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6417 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6421 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6422 inspired to implement some of it.
6423 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6427 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6430 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6434 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6437 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6438 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6442 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6445 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6446 have done.) (#17598)
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6462 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6465 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6472 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6473 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6480 argument processor in perl.
6481 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6482 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6483 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6484 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6491 type directories. (#16933)
6492 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6493 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6494 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6495 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6496 are supported. (#16935)
6497 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6502 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6505 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6509 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6513 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6514 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6515 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6516 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6517 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6518 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6525 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6526 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6528 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6529 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6530 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6531 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6532 a given package, or -i or -a.
6533 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6534 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6535 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6536 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6537 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6538 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6539 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6540 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6541 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6543 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6544 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6545 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6549 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6552 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6553 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6561 does not have a section.
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6568 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6569 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6570 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6574 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * Fixed typo #16215.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6583 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6584 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6585 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6586 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6587 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6592 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6595 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6596 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6597 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6608 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6617 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6618 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6619 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6620 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6621 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6622 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6635 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6642 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6643 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6644 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6648 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6651 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6655 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6664 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6671 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6681 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6684 postinst, postrm, etc.
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6694 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6696 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6697 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6698 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6699 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6700 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6701 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6705 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6708 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6709 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6713 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6716 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6720 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6723 installing package files into.
6724 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6729 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6733 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6737 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6743 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6746 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6750 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6753 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6754 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6755 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6756 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6760 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6762 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6763 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6764 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6765 multiple binary packages.
6766 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6767 should rebuild them with this version.
6768 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6772 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6775 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6779 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6782 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6786 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6789 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6790 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6791 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6792 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6793 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6794 debian/README.debian.
6795 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6796 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6797 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6798 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6799 in a few situations.)
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6803 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6815 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6818 * Fixed several man pages.
6820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6822 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6824 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6825 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6826 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6830 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6832 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6833 is ready for general use.
6834 * Added man pages for all commands.
6835 * Multiple binary package support.
6836 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6837 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6838 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6840 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6841 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6842 auto-installed as parameters.
6843 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6845 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6848 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6849 the package build directory it is to act on.
6850 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6851 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6852 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6856 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6858 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6859 ready to replace debstd.
6861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400