1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
28 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
32 * update french translation.
33 * Fix french misspelling.
34 * French translation update after massive man page typography
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
38 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
44 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
48 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
50 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
54 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
57 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
58 introduced by the fix to #527990.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
62 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
65 changes are planned for that mode.
66 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
67 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
68 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
69 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
70 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
71 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
72 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
73 (genesis) still uses them.
74 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
75 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
76 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
77 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
78 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
79 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
80 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
81 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
82 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
83 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
84 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
85 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
86 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
87 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
88 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
89 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
90 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
91 commands. (See #570039)
92 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
94 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
99 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
103 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
104 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
105 in control file or debhelper config files.
106 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
110 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
113 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
114 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
118 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
121 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
125 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
128 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
129 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
133 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Updated French translation.
136 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
137 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
138 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
139 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
141 * Typo. Closes: #571968
142 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
143 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
144 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
145 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
146 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
147 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
148 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
149 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
150 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
152 * dh: Improve documentation.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
156 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
158 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
159 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
160 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
164 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
167 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
171 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
174 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
178 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
181 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
182 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
183 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
184 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
185 options that they do not support.
186 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
187 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
188 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
189 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
190 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
191 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
196 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
200 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
201 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
202 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
203 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
204 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
205 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
206 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
207 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
208 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
212 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
215 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
216 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
217 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
218 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
222 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Typo. Closes: #558654
225 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
226 installed. Closes: #558782
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
230 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
233 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
234 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
235 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
236 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
237 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
241 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
243 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
244 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
245 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
246 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
250 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
253 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
254 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
258 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
260 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
264 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
266 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
267 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
268 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
269 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
270 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
271 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
272 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
273 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
274 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
275 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
276 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
277 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
278 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
279 time soon.) Closes: #554509
280 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
282 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
283 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
284 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
285 document id. Closes: #555677
286 * Typo. Closes: #555659
287 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
288 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
289 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
290 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
292 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
293 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
294 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
299 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
302 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
303 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
304 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
305 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
306 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
307 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
308 translation (#494300 part 2)
311 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
313 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
314 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
315 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
316 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
317 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
321 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
324 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
325 (It was only run once due to logging.)
326 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
327 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
328 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
329 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
330 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
331 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
332 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
333 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
334 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
335 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
339 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
343 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
346 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
347 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
351 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
354 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
355 flag with arch all/any packages.
356 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
357 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
358 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
359 situation. Closes: #540794
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
363 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
367 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
368 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
369 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
370 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
371 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
374 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
375 the default. Closes: #538201
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
380 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
384 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
385 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
386 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
387 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
388 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
390 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
391 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
392 * Above Closes: #491117
393 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
398 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
404 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
405 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
406 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
410 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
413 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
414 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
415 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
416 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
417 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
422 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
425 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
426 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
430 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
432 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
436 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
438 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
439 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
441 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
442 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
443 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
447 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
449 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
450 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
454 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
460 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
462 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
463 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
464 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
469 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
471 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
475 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
478 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
479 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
480 created by using `python' first during build and install.
482 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
487 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
489 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
493 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
495 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
496 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
500 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
502 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
506 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
508 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
512 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
514 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
515 contributed by Modestas Vainius
516 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
517 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
518 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
519 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
520 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
521 that support it. Closes: #480577
522 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
523 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
524 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
526 - Adds support for cmake.
527 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
528 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
530 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
532 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
533 that use them. The options are:
534 --sourcedir, --destdir
535 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
536 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
537 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
538 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
539 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
552 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
553 default. Closes: #537140
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
557 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
560 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
561 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
565 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
568 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
575 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
579 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
582 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
584 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
585 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
586 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
590 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
593 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
594 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
595 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
599 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
602 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
603 warning or deprecation message.
604 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
605 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
606 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
607 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
608 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
609 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
610 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
611 Closes: #534639, #357434
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
615 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
621 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
624 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
625 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
626 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
627 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
629 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
630 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
631 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
635 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
651 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
659 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
660 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
662 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
663 file support. Closes: #494914
664 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
668 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
671 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
672 parameters. Closes: #527256
673 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
674 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
675 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
679 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
683 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
684 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
685 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
689 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
692 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
693 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
694 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
698 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
701 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
702 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
704 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
705 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
706 by triggers). Closes: #521181
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
710 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
714 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
718 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
721 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
722 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
723 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
724 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
729 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
735 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
738 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
739 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
740 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
741 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
742 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
744 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
745 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
746 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
747 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
748 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
749 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
753 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
756 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
757 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
758 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
759 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
760 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
762 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
766 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
768 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
772 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
774 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
775 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
776 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
777 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
778 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
779 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
780 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
781 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
782 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
783 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
784 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
788 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
790 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
791 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
793 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
794 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
795 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
796 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
798 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
799 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
803 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
805 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
806 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
807 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
808 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
809 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
810 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
811 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
813 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
814 that uses them. Affected options are:
815 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
816 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
817 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
818 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
819 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
820 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
821 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
822 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
823 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
824 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
825 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
826 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
830 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
837 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
843 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
845 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
846 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
848 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
849 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
850 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
851 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
852 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
854 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
856 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
857 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
858 rules (see bug #509756).
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
862 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
868 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
869 * Typo. Closes: #493062
870 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
871 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
875 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
878 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
879 empty files. Closes: #490937
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
883 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
889 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
896 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
899 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
900 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
901 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
902 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
907 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
909 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
910 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
911 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
912 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
916 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
919 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
920 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
921 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
922 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
923 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
927 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
934 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
936 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
937 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
938 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
939 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
940 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
941 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
942 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
943 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
944 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
945 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
949 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
952 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
953 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
954 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
955 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
957 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
958 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
959 breaking backwards compatibility.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
963 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
966 message in perl 5.10.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
970 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
976 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Convert copyright file to new format.
979 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
983 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
986 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
990 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
993 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
994 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
995 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
996 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
997 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
998 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
999 logging by dh_listpackages.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1006 run and there are no packages of that type.
1007 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1008 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1009 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1010 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1012 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1013 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1017 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1020 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1021 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1028 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1029 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1031 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1032 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1033 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1034 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1035 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1036 planned but not yet implemented.)
1037 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1038 if the Makefile has such a target.
1039 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1040 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1041 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1042 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1043 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1044 but not yet implemented.)
1045 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1046 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1047 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1048 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1049 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1051 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1053 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1054 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1056 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1057 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1058 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1063 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1066 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1067 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1071 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1073 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1074 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1075 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1079 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1085 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1091 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1094 just those installed by the program.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1098 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1101 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1102 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1106 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1109 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1110 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1111 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1112 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1116 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1119 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1120 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1124 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1127 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1128 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1132 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1135 with policy. Closes: #461392
1136 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1137 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1138 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1139 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1140 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1144 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1147 Closes: #460340, #460351
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1151 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1154 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1155 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1156 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1157 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1161 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1164 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1165 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1166 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1167 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1168 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1169 package build directory won't work.
1170 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1171 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1172 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1173 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1174 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1175 mode. Closes: #459426
1176 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1184 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1192 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1193 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1194 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1195 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1196 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1197 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1204 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1205 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1206 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1207 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1211 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1214 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1215 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1216 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1217 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1218 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1222 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1225 debian/package.triggers files.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1229 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1232 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1239 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1240 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1241 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1242 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1247 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1250 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1254 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1257 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1258 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1260 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1265 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1269 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1270 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1271 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1289 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1292 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1294 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1295 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1296 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1298 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1299 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1300 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1304 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1307 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1308 * Update urls to web page.
1309 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1310 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1311 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1312 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1316 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1319 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1320 - typo in alternatives call
1321 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1323 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1324 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1328 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1331 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1342 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1348 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1351 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1353 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1354 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1355 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1356 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1357 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1358 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1359 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1360 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1361 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1362 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1363 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1370 package install. Closes: #415717
1371 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1372 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1373 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1374 script and then remove the python files.
1375 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1376 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1377 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1378 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1379 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1380 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1381 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1382 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1383 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1384 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1385 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1386 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1387 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1391 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Correct typo in french translation
1397 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1398 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1400 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1402 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1403 Closes: #406921, #381940
1404 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1406 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1407 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1408 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1409 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1410 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1411 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1412 specified). Closes: #381851
1413 * Misc minor changes.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1417 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1424 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1425 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1429 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1435 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1436 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1439 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1440 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1442 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1443 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1444 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1445 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1449 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1452 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1455 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1465 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1471 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1472 a difficult situation.
1473 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1474 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1475 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1476 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1477 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1478 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1479 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1480 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1481 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1482 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1486 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Non-maintainer upload.
1489 * Update of dh_python
1490 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1491 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1493 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1494 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1495 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1496 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1497 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1499 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1501 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Non-maintainer upload.
1504 * Update of dh_python
1505 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1506 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1507 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1508 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1509 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1510 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1511 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1512 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1513 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1514 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1516 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1517 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1518 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1519 the not too-distant future).
1520 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1521 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1522 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1523 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1524 thus made the build fail.
1526 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1528 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Non-maintainer upload.
1531 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1533 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1535 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1538 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1539 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1540 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1541 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1542 package. Closes: #301424
1543 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1544 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1545 fonts). Closes: #372686
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1549 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1555 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1556 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1557 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1558 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1559 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1560 above, but already depends on that.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1564 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1567 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1568 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1569 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1570 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1571 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1575 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1581 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1587 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1588 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1592 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1595 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1599 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1603 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1604 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1605 new version (0.24.1).
1606 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1607 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1610 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1611 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1612 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1613 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1614 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1615 new directory on their own.
1616 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1617 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1621 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1624 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1625 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1626 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1627 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1631 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1634 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1635 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1636 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1637 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1638 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1642 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1648 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1652 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1653 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1657 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1658 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1662 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1664 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1665 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1667 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1668 ignored. Closes: #337664
1670 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1675 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1681 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1686 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1687 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1688 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1689 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1690 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1691 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1692 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1696 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1699 version. Closes: #350607
1700 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1701 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1702 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1703 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1710 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1711 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1712 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1732 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1739 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1740 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1741 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1742 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1743 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1744 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1748 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1751 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1752 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1760 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1764 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1767 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1771 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1774 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1775 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1776 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1777 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1778 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1779 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1783 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1787 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1788 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1789 link. Closes: #346405
1790 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1792 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1793 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1794 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1795 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1796 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1797 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1798 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1809 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1815 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1818 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1825 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1830 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1834 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1835 installed. Closes: #342033
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1839 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1842 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1843 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1844 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1855 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1861 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1865 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1866 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1867 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1871 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1874 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1879 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1892 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1895 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1896 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1897 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1898 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1899 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1900 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1901 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1903 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1907 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1910 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1911 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1918 in standard man dirs.
1919 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1932 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1951 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1954 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1955 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1962 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1963 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1964 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1966 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1968 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1983 mode. Closes: #324161
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1990 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1991 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1992 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1993 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2001 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2002 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2003 is necesary for sanity.
2004 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2005 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2012 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2013 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2020 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2033 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2034 released, so use at your own risk.
2035 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2036 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2038 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2039 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2040 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2041 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2042 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2043 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2044 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2045 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2046 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2047 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2048 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2049 including twice per config file line now..
2050 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2051 and simplfy the rules file.
2052 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2053 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2054 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2056 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2057 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2064 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2071 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2078 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2085 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2086 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2087 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2088 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2089 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2090 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2097 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2098 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2099 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2104 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2107 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2108 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2116 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2117 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2118 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2126 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2127 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2128 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2148 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2149 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2150 unknown. Closes: #282924
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Spanish man page updates.
2164 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2178 * dh_desktop: reindent
2179 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2180 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2192 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2198 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2202 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2205 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2206 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2210 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2232 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2239 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2240 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2241 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2242 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2243 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2244 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2246 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2247 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2248 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2249 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2250 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2251 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2252 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2253 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2254 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2255 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2256 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2257 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2258 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2259 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2260 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2261 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2275 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2279 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2282 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2289 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2296 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2312 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2321 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2322 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2323 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2330 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2337 but occasionally right and necessary.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2341 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2344 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2345 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2346 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2347 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2348 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2355 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2357 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2358 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2359 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2360 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2361 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2362 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2363 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2364 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2365 postinst scripts for udebs.
2366 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2373 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2375 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2376 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2403 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2410 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2414 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2417 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2420 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2421 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2434 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2441 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2442 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2443 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2445 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2447 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2448 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2449 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2453 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2456 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2464 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2465 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2466 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2486 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2487 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2488 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2489 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2490 associated -dbg packages.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2497 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2504 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2511 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2518 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2526 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2533 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2541 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2549 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2550 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2551 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2552 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2553 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2554 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2555 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2556 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2557 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2558 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2565 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2573 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2574 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2581 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2582 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2590 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2597 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2604 out section number. Closes: #204731
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2630 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2631 removal. Closes: #204286
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2638 renaming. Closes: #203548
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2645 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2646 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2662 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2668 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2671 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2672 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2673 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2680 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2681 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2701 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2709 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2716 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2718 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2719 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2726 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2731 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2734 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2738 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2746 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2753 it break hard links (see #188663).
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2760 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2774 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2775 debconf-mergetemplates
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2779 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2782 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2789 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2796 * Update debhelper(1).
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2800 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2803 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2804 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2805 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2806 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2807 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2814 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2815 the shell. Closes: #178524
2816 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2823 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2830 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2834 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2837 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2838 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2839 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2840 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2848 files from installation.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2852 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2855 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2856 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2860 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2863 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2870 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2874 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2880 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2886 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2890 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2891 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2893 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2897 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2900 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2901 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2902 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2903 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2907 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2910 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2914 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2917 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2918 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2922 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2926 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2937 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2941 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2942 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2943 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2951 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2952 practice. Closes: #163303
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2972 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2974 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2975 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2976 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2977 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2978 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2982 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2985 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2990 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3003 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3006 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3011 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3036 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3039 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3040 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3041 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3042 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3063 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3064 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3068 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3071 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3072 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3073 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3074 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3075 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3082 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3084 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3092 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3099 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3100 right thing. Closes: #150644
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Stupid, evil typo.
3107 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3121 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3122 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3136 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3143 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3144 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3152 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3162 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3165 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3166 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3170 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3176 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Removing perl warning message.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3185 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3186 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3187 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3188 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3189 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3190 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3191 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3192 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3212 debconf-mergetemplate.
3213 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3214 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3221 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3222 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3223 dh_install, which ...
3224 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3225 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3226 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3227 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3228 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3229 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3230 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3231 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3232 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3233 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3234 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3235 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3236 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3237 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3238 other minor changes.
3239 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3240 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3241 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3242 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3243 course there's -X ..)
3244 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3245 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3246 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3248 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3249 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3250 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3251 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3252 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3263 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3266 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3270 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3276 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3282 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3288 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3294 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3297 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3298 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3299 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3300 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3302 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3303 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3307 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3313 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3316 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3320 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3323 upset. Closes: #131322
3325 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3330 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3331 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3332 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3333 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3334 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3335 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3336 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3337 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3338 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3339 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3340 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3341 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3342 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3343 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3344 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3346 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3350 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3353 - Better indenting of generated code.
3354 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3358 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3362 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3363 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3364 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3365 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3366 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3367 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3368 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3372 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3375 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3379 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3382 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3383 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3384 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3385 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3386 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3387 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3388 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3389 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3390 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3391 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3392 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3393 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3394 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3395 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3396 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3401 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3407 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3410 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3411 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3415 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3418 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3419 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3423 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3429 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3432 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3433 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3434 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3435 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3436 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3447 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3450 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3454 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3457 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3468 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3471 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3481 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3485 Also some indentation fixes.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3492 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3493 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3494 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3495 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3496 Closes: #106514, #85520
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3500 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3506 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3518 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3530 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3533 change it in debhelper v4..
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3537 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3543 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3546 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3553 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3566 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3567 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3568 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3569 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3570 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3571 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3572 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3573 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3574 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3575 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3576 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3577 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3584 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3598 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3599 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3600 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3601 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3602 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3603 program those options go to. So, for example,
3604 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3605 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3606 something complex. Closes: #89311
3607 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3611 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3614 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3615 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3616 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3623 through loop. Closes: #98598
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3627 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Missing semi-colon.
3630 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3631 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3638 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3639 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3640 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3644 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3647 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3648 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3652 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3655 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3659 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3662 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3663 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3667 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3670 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3671 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3672 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3676 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3679 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3680 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3681 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3685 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3688 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3692 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3698 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3704 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3710 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3716 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3719 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3723 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3726 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3727 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3728 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3729 followed. Closes: #85483
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3733 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3735 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3736 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3737 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3741 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3744 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3745 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3746 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3747 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3748 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3749 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3750 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3751 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3752 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3753 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3754 Closes: #88464, #77743
3755 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3756 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3757 us to deal with that gracefully.
3758 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3760 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3761 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3762 a while, Closes: #51225
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3766 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3772 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3775 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3779 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3783 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3788 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3791 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3792 don't make packlist files.
3793 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3794 debhelper coding standards.
3795 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3796 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3800 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3803 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3807 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3810 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3811 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3812 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3813 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3814 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3815 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3816 but is mildly deprecated.
3817 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3818 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3819 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3820 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3821 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3822 switching to statoverrides..
3823 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3824 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3825 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3826 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3827 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3828 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3830 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3831 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3832 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3833 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3834 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3835 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3836 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3837 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3838 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3840 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3841 variable names, pod man pages).
3842 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3843 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3844 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3845 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3846 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3847 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3848 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3852 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3868 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3874 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3875 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3876 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3882 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3883 they were previously ignored.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3889 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3890 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3896 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3897 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3898 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3904 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3910 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3911 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3917 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3918 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3919 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3920 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3921 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3922 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3923 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3924 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3925 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3926 it is an obsolete program.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3932 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3940 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3946 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3950 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3952 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * typo: Closes, #78567
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3983 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3984 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3985 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3986 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3987 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3991 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3994 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3999 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4002 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4003 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4004 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4005 backwards-compatibility.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4012 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4013 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4014 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4015 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4016 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4017 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4019 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4020 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4021 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4023 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4025 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4026 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4027 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4028 should now be raised to severity important..
4029 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4030 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4037 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4067 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4070 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4071 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4072 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4073 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4083 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4086 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4087 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4088 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4089 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4090 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4091 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4099 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4109 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4112 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4120 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4121 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4122 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4123 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4131 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4134 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4137 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4138 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4141 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4143 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4144 the TODO entry about it.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4158 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4159 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4166 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4167 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4168 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4169 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4189 (this appears to be logal).
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4196 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4197 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4198 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4199 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4212 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4213 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4214 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4215 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4228 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4242 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4243 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4244 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4265 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4266 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4267 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4268 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4269 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4270 notice until v2 is complete.
4271 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4272 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4273 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4274 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4275 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4276 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4278 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4279 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4280 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4281 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4301 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4315 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4316 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4317 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4318 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4326 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4327 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4328 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4336 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4337 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4344 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4351 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4365 depend on the build and install targets.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4372 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4398 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4399 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4400 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4401 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4402 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4403 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4405 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4406 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4407 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4408 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4409 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4410 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4411 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4415 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4421 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4430 right place. Closes: #55065
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4444 * Copyright date updates.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4448 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4451 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4456 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4469 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4490 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4491 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4492 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4493 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4494 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4495 bits until all files have been registered.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installmanpages:
4502 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4503 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4504 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4505 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4506 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4507 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4508 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4509 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4510 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4511 otherwise change the result at all.
4513 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4514 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4515 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4516 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4517 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4528 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4531 act on files that don't exist.
4532 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4533 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4534 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4536 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4537 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4538 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4539 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4543 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4549 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4555 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4558 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4565 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4567 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4568 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4569 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4576 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4577 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4578 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4579 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4580 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4581 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4582 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4584 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4586 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4590 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4597 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4612 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4631 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4632 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4633 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4634 I made some changes, though:
4635 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4636 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4637 that is a clear violation of policy.
4638 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4639 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4640 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4641 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4642 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4643 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4644 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4645 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4646 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4648 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4661 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4668 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4669 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4690 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4691 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4692 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4693 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4694 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4695 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4696 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4700 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4706 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4710 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4711 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4724 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4731 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4732 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4738 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4747 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4754 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4755 for the dependancies to be generated.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4762 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4769 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4770 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4771 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4779 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4780 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4799 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4809 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4812 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4813 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4814 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4815 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4816 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4817 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4818 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4819 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4820 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4821 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4822 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4823 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4830 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4831 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4833 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4834 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4835 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4836 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4837 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4838 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4840 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4841 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4848 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4862 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4870 for building debhelper.
4871 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4885 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4889 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4892 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4893 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4894 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4895 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4896 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4897 it's always available.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4904 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4905 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4906 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4910 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4913 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4914 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4927 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4940 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4941 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4942 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4949 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4957 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4958 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4960 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4961 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4980 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4987 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4988 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4990 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4997 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4998 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4999 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5006 things if CDPATH is set.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5019 seems to make sense for the transition.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5026 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5031 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5034 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5035 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5042 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5049 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5050 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5051 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5052 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5062 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5065 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5066 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5067 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5068 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5069 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5070 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5071 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5072 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5073 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5074 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5082 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5083 * README: mention doc/v2
5084 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5085 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5091 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5092 be using this script RSN.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5099 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5100 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5101 more than 1 init script.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5108 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Changed perl version detection.
5115 * Changed call to find.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5122 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5124 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Really include dh_installpam.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5138 * Wrote man page for same.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5145 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5146 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5161 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5162 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5163 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5164 x bit was being set!
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5171 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5172 well. (Closes: 38900)
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5176 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5179 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5180 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5206 help from Julian Gilbey.
5207 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5208 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5209 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5210 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5211 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5212 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5213 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5246 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5253 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5260 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5273 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5277 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5283 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5292 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5293 may be deleted. (#35845)
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5297 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Various man page enhancements.
5300 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5308 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5309 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5316 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5317 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5318 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5320 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5321 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * Another very minor typo fix.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * Very minor typo fix.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5344 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5347 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5348 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5361 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5362 variables properly (#34850).
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5375 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5376 (automatically generated by build process).
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5382 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5389 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5390 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5392 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5399 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * README: minor typo fix.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5412 leave it at that. :-)
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5431 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5432 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5433 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5440 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5447 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5451 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5454 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5455 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5456 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5457 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5464 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5465 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5466 Craig Small for spotting this.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5470 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5473 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5474 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5487 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5493 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5494 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5495 working on the last version of debhelper.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5502 being made. (#23255)
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5512 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5515 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5519 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5522 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5523 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5524 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5525 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5532 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5533 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5534 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5535 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5537 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5538 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5540 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5545 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5560 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5561 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5562 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5563 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5564 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5565 suidregister actually supports it.
5566 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5567 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5571 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5578 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5581 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5582 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5583 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5584 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5585 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5586 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5587 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5591 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5593 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5594 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5601 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5602 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5603 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5604 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5611 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5613 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5614 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5615 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5616 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5617 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5618 effect, either. (#30118)
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5631 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5632 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5645 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5646 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5647 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5648 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5655 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5656 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5660 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5666 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5669 packages, painlessly.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5673 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * The perl conversion is complete.
5695 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5697 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5698 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5699 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5704 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5707 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5708 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5709 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5716 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5718 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5720 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5721 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5725 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5728 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5729 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5742 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5743 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5744 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5745 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5746 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5753 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5754 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5755 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5756 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5763 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5767 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5770 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5771 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5772 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5773 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5774 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5775 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5776 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5777 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5787 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5790 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5791 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5792 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5800 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5807 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5811 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5814 sections of shared libraries.
5815 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5816 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5817 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5818 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5819 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5820 things you don't want them to.
5821 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5822 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5826 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5829 shared libraries. (#26414)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5835 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5836 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5837 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5838 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5842 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5846 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5848 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5849 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5850 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5851 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5852 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5856 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5859 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5863 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5866 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5867 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5875 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5879 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5882 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5883 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5884 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5885 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5886 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5888 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5889 remove debian/files properly.
5890 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5891 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5892 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5893 * Removed bogus menu file.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5900 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5907 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5908 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5909 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5910 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5911 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5912 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5916 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5919 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5920 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5921 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5922 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5926 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5933 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5936 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5937 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5939 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5940 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5941 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5942 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5943 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5944 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5951 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5952 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5953 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5954 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5955 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5956 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5957 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5958 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5959 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5960 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5961 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5962 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5963 passed any switches.
5964 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5968 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5971 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5972 at all for a long while.
5973 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5974 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5975 large chunks in the process.
5976 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5977 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5978 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5983 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5986 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5988 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5996 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5997 that don't always have the same files in them.
5998 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5999 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6000 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6004 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6008 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6009 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6010 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6011 updating 27 man pages.
6012 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6013 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6014 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6015 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6016 programs act on. (#25247)
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6020 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6024 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6025 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6026 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6027 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6028 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6029 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6048 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6051 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6055 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6061 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6064 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6065 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6066 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6067 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6068 package by accident.
6069 * Is version 1.0 next?
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6073 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6076 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6077 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6081 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6084 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6085 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6086 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6087 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6088 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6090 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6095 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6098 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6099 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6103 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6106 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6110 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6113 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6114 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6119 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6125 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6128 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6129 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6140 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6143 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6144 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6145 past week. Thanks, guys!
6147 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6148 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6149 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6150 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6151 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6152 would do in the same situation.
6153 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6154 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6156 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6158 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6159 permissions changed.
6160 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6161 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6162 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6163 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6164 files are treated identically.
6165 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6166 * Minor man page fixes.
6167 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6168 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6169 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6173 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6176 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6177 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6178 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6179 use -X multiple times, too.
6180 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6181 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6185 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6188 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6189 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6193 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6196 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6200 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6203 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6204 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6205 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6206 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6207 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6208 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6209 shape if you're starting a new package.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6213 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6216 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6220 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6223 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6224 because of missing symlinks.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6228 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6234 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6237 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6238 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6239 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6240 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6241 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6243 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6244 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6248 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6250 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6251 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6252 to be changed after the fact :-)
6253 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6257 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6259 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6260 no version string after the -V.
6262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6264 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6266 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6267 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6275 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6282 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6283 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6284 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6285 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6286 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6287 I always welcome corrections!
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6291 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6297 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6300 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6301 * Documented this new switch.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6305 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6308 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6309 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6310 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6311 no packages use the old behavior.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6318 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6319 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6326 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6330 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6336 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6339 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6343 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6346 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6347 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6348 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6352 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6358 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6361 into the source package by accident.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6365 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6368 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6369 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6370 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6371 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6372 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6373 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6378 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6382 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6383 inspired to implement some of it.
6384 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6388 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6391 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6395 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6398 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6399 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6403 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6406 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6407 have done.) (#17598)
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6411 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6417 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6419 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6426 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6433 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6434 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6438 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6441 argument processor in perl.
6442 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6443 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6444 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6445 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6449 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6452 type directories. (#16933)
6453 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6454 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6455 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6456 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6457 are supported. (#16935)
6458 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6463 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6466 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6470 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6474 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6475 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6476 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6477 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6478 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6479 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6483 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6486 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6487 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6489 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6490 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6491 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6492 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6493 a given package, or -i or -a.
6494 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6495 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6496 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6497 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6498 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6499 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6500 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6501 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6502 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6504 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6505 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6506 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6510 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6513 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6514 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6522 does not have a section.
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6529 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6530 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6531 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Fixed typo #16215.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6544 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6545 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6546 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6547 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6548 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6553 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6556 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6557 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6558 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6569 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6578 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6579 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6580 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6581 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6582 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6583 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6593 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6596 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6603 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6604 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6605 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6609 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6612 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6616 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6618 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6622 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6624 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6625 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6632 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6642 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6645 postinst, postrm, etc.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6649 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6655 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6658 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6659 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6660 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6661 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6662 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6666 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6668 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6669 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6670 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6674 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6676 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6677 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6681 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6684 installing package files into.
6685 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6690 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6694 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6698 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6704 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6707 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6711 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6714 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6715 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6716 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6717 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6721 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6723 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6724 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6725 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6726 multiple binary packages.
6727 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6728 should rebuild them with this version.
6729 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6733 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6736 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6740 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6743 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6747 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6750 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6751 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6752 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6753 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6754 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6755 debian/README.debian.
6756 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6757 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6758 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6759 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6760 in a few situations.)
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6764 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6770 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6772 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6776 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6779 * Fixed several man pages.
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6783 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6786 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6787 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6791 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6793 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6794 is ready for general use.
6795 * Added man pages for all commands.
6796 * Multiple binary package support.
6797 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6798 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6799 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6801 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6802 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6803 auto-installed as parameters.
6804 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6806 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6809 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6810 the package build directory it is to act on.
6811 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6812 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6813 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6817 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6819 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6820 ready to replace debstd.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400