1 debhelper (8.1.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:13:18 -0400
8 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
11 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
12 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
13 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
14 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
15 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
16 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:12:05 -0400
20 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
24 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
25 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
27 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
28 changes may be added to that mode.
29 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
30 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
31 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
32 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
33 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
34 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
35 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
36 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
37 * Removed old example rules files.
38 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
42 * update french translation.
43 * Fix french misspelling.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
47 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
50 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
54 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
57 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
59 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
60 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
61 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
62 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
63 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
67 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
70 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
71 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
72 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
73 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
74 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
75 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
77 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
78 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
79 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
80 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
81 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
82 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
83 (Thanks, David Prévot)
84 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
85 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
86 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
87 target fails. Closes: #601037
88 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
90 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
91 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
92 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
94 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
96 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
97 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
99 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
100 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
101 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
103 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
105 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
108 * update french translation.
109 * Fix french misspelling.
110 * French translation update after massive man page typography
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
114 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
120 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
124 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
126 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
130 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
132 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
133 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
134 introduced by the fix to #527990.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
138 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
141 changes are planned for that mode.
142 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
143 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
144 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
145 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
146 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
147 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
148 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
149 (genesis) still uses them.
150 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
151 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
152 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
153 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
154 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
155 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
156 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
157 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
158 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
159 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
160 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
161 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
162 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
163 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
164 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
165 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
166 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
167 commands. (See #570039)
168 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
170 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
175 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
179 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
180 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
181 in control file or debhelper config files.
182 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
186 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
189 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
190 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
194 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
197 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
201 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
204 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
205 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
209 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Updated French translation.
212 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
213 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
214 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
215 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
217 * Typo. Closes: #571968
218 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
219 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
220 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
221 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
222 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
223 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
224 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
225 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
226 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
228 * dh: Improve documentation.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
232 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
234 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
235 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
236 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
240 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
243 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
247 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
250 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
254 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
257 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
258 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
259 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
260 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
261 options that they do not support.
262 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
263 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
264 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
265 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
266 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
267 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
272 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
276 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
277 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
278 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
279 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
280 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
281 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
282 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
283 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
284 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
288 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
291 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
292 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
293 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
294 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
298 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Typo. Closes: #558654
301 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
302 installed. Closes: #558782
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
306 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
309 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
310 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
311 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
312 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
313 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
317 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
319 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
320 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
321 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
322 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
326 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
329 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
330 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
334 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
336 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
340 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
342 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
343 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
344 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
345 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
346 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
347 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
348 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
349 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
350 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
351 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
352 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
353 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
354 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
355 time soon.) Closes: #554509
356 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
358 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
359 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
360 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
361 document id. Closes: #555677
362 * Typo. Closes: #555659
363 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
364 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
365 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
366 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
368 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
369 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
370 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
375 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
378 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
379 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
380 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
381 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
382 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
383 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
384 translation (#494300 part 2)
387 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
389 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
390 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
391 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
392 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
393 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
397 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
400 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
401 (It was only run once due to logging.)
402 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
403 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
404 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
405 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
406 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
407 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
408 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
409 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
410 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
411 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
415 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
419 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
422 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
423 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
427 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
430 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
431 flag with arch all/any packages.
432 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
433 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
434 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
435 situation. Closes: #540794
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
439 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
443 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
444 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
445 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
446 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
447 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
450 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
451 the default. Closes: #538201
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
456 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
460 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
461 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
462 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
463 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
464 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
466 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
467 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
468 * Above Closes: #491117
469 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
474 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
480 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
481 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
482 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
486 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
489 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
490 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
491 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
492 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
493 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
498 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
500 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
501 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
502 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
506 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
508 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
512 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
514 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
515 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
517 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
518 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
519 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
523 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
525 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
526 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
530 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
536 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
538 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
539 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
540 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
545 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
547 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
551 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
554 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
555 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
556 created by using `python' first during build and install.
558 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
563 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
565 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
569 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
571 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
572 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
576 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
578 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
582 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
584 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
588 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
590 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
591 contributed by Modestas Vainius
592 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
593 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
594 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
595 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
596 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
597 that support it. Closes: #480577
598 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
599 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
600 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
602 - Adds support for cmake.
603 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
604 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
606 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
608 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
609 that use them. The options are:
610 --sourcedir, --destdir
611 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
612 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
613 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
614 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
615 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
619 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
625 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
628 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
629 default. Closes: #537140
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
633 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
636 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
637 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
644 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
651 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
658 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
660 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
661 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
662 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
669 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
670 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
671 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
675 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
678 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
679 warning or deprecation message.
680 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
681 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
682 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
683 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
684 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
685 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
686 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
687 Closes: #534639, #357434
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
691 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
697 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
700 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
701 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
702 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
703 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
705 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
706 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
707 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
711 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
717 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
724 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
727 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
731 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
735 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
736 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
738 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
739 file support. Closes: #494914
740 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
744 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
747 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
748 parameters. Closes: #527256
749 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
750 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
751 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
755 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
759 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
760 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
761 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
765 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
768 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
769 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
770 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
774 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
777 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
778 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
780 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
781 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
782 by triggers). Closes: #521181
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
786 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
790 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
794 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
797 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
798 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
799 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
800 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
805 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
811 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
814 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
815 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
816 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
817 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
818 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
820 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
821 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
822 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
823 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
824 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
825 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
829 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
832 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
833 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
834 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
835 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
836 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
838 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
842 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
844 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
848 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
850 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
851 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
852 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
853 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
854 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
855 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
856 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
857 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
858 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
859 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
860 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
864 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
866 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
867 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
869 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
870 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
871 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
872 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
874 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
875 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
879 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
881 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
882 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
883 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
884 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
885 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
886 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
887 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
889 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
890 that uses them. Affected options are:
891 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
892 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
893 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
894 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
895 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
896 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
897 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
898 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
899 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
900 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
901 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
902 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
906 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
913 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
919 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
921 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
922 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
924 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
925 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
926 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
927 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
928 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
930 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
932 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
933 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
934 rules (see bug #509756).
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
938 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
944 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
945 * Typo. Closes: #493062
946 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
947 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
951 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
954 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
955 empty files. Closes: #490937
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
959 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
965 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
972 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
975 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
976 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
977 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
978 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
983 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
985 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
986 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
987 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
988 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
992 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
995 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
996 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
997 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
998 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
999 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1003 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1013 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1014 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1015 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1016 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1017 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1018 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1019 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1020 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1021 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1028 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1029 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1030 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1031 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1033 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1034 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1035 breaking backwards compatibility.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1039 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1042 message in perl 5.10.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1046 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1052 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1055 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1059 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1062 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1069 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1070 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1071 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1072 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1073 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1074 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1075 logging by dh_listpackages.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1079 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1082 run and there are no packages of that type.
1083 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1084 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1085 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1086 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1088 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1089 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1093 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1096 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1097 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1101 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1104 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1105 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1107 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1108 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1109 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1110 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1111 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1112 planned but not yet implemented.)
1113 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1114 if the Makefile has such a target.
1115 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1116 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1117 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1118 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1119 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1120 but not yet implemented.)
1121 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1122 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1123 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1124 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1125 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1127 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1129 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1130 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1132 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1133 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1134 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1139 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1142 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1143 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1147 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1149 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1150 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1151 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1155 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1161 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1167 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1170 just those installed by the program.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1174 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1177 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1178 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1182 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1185 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1186 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1187 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1188 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1192 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1195 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1196 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1200 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1203 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1204 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1208 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1211 with policy. Closes: #461392
1212 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1213 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1214 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1215 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1216 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1220 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1223 Closes: #460340, #460351
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1227 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1230 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1231 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1232 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1233 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1237 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1240 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1241 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1242 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1243 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1244 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1245 package build directory won't work.
1246 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1247 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1248 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1249 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1250 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1251 mode. Closes: #459426
1252 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1257 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1260 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1264 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1268 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1269 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1270 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1271 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1272 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1273 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1277 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1280 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1281 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1282 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1283 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1287 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1290 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1291 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1292 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1293 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1294 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1298 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1301 debian/package.triggers files.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1305 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1308 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1312 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1315 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1316 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1317 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1318 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1323 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1326 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1333 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1334 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1336 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1341 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1345 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1346 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1347 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1351 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1358 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1365 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1368 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1370 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1371 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1372 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1374 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1375 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1376 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1380 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1383 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1384 * Update urls to web page.
1385 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1386 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1387 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1388 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1392 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1395 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1396 - typo in alternatives call
1397 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1399 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1400 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1407 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1412 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1418 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1424 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1427 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1429 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1430 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1431 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1432 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1433 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1434 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1435 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1436 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1437 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1438 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1439 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1446 package install. Closes: #415717
1447 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1448 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1449 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1450 script and then remove the python files.
1451 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1452 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1453 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1454 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1455 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1456 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1457 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1458 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1459 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1460 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1461 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1462 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1463 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Correct typo in french translation
1473 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1474 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1476 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1478 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1479 Closes: #406921, #381940
1480 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1482 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1483 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1484 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1485 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1486 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1487 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1488 specified). Closes: #381851
1489 * Misc minor changes.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1493 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1500 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1501 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1505 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1511 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1512 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1515 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1516 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1518 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1519 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1520 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1521 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1525 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1528 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1531 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1535 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1541 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1547 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1548 a difficult situation.
1549 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1550 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1551 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1552 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1553 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1554 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1555 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1556 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1557 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1558 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1562 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Non-maintainer upload.
1565 * Update of dh_python
1566 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1567 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1569 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1570 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1571 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1572 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1573 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1575 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1577 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Non-maintainer upload.
1580 * Update of dh_python
1581 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1582 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1583 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1584 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1585 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1586 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1587 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1588 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1589 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1590 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1592 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1593 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1594 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1595 the not too-distant future).
1596 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1597 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1598 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1599 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1600 thus made the build fail.
1602 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1604 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Non-maintainer upload.
1607 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1609 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1611 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1614 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1615 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1616 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1617 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1618 package. Closes: #301424
1619 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1620 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1621 fonts). Closes: #372686
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1625 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1631 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1632 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1633 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1634 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1635 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1636 above, but already depends on that.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1640 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1643 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1644 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1645 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1646 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1647 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1651 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1657 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1663 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1664 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1668 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1671 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1675 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1679 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1680 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1681 new version (0.24.1).
1682 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1683 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1686 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1687 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1688 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1689 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1690 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1691 new directory on their own.
1692 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1693 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1700 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1701 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1702 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1703 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1707 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1710 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1711 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1712 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1713 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1714 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1718 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1724 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1728 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1729 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1733 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1734 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1738 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1740 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1741 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1743 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1744 ignored. Closes: #337664
1746 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1762 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1763 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1764 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1765 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1766 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1767 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1768 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1772 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1775 version. Closes: #350607
1776 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1777 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1778 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1779 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1783 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1786 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1787 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1788 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1805 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1808 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1815 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1816 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1817 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1818 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1819 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1820 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1827 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1828 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1836 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1843 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1847 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1850 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1851 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1852 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1853 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1854 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1855 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1863 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1864 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1865 link. Closes: #346405
1866 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1868 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1869 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1870 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1871 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1872 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1873 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1874 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1885 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1891 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1894 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1898 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1901 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1906 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1910 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1911 installed. Closes: #342033
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1918 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1919 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1920 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1925 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1931 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1937 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1941 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1942 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1943 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1947 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1950 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1955 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1962 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1968 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1971 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1972 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1973 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1974 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1975 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1976 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1977 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1979 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1986 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1987 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1994 in standard man dirs.
1995 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2008 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2027 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2030 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2031 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2038 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2039 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2040 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2042 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2044 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2059 mode. Closes: #324161
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2066 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2067 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2068 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2069 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2077 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2078 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2079 is necesary for sanity.
2080 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2081 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2088 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2089 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2096 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2109 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2110 released, so use at your own risk.
2111 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2112 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2114 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2115 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2116 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2117 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2118 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2119 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2120 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2121 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2122 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2123 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2124 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2125 including twice per config file line now..
2126 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2127 and simplfy the rules file.
2128 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2129 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2130 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2132 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2133 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2140 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2147 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2154 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2161 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2162 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2163 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2164 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2165 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2166 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2173 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2174 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2175 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2183 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2184 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2189 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2192 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2193 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2194 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2202 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2203 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2204 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2224 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2225 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2226 unknown. Closes: #282924
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Spanish man page updates.
2240 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2254 * dh_desktop: reindent
2255 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2256 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2268 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2274 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2278 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2281 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2282 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2286 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2308 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2315 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2316 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2317 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2318 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2319 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2320 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2322 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2323 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2324 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2325 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2326 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2327 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2328 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2329 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2330 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2331 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2332 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2333 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2334 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2335 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2336 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2337 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2351 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2355 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2358 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2365 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2372 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2382 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2388 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2394 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2397 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2398 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2399 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2406 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2413 but occasionally right and necessary.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2417 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2420 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2421 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2422 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2423 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2424 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2428 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2431 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2433 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2434 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2435 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2436 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2437 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2438 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2439 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2440 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2441 postinst scripts for udebs.
2442 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2449 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2451 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2452 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2462 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2476 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2479 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2483 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2486 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2490 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2493 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2496 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2497 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2501 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2510 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2514 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2517 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2518 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2519 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2521 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2523 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2524 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2525 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2529 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2532 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2540 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2541 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2542 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2562 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2563 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2564 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2565 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2566 associated -dbg packages.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2573 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2580 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2587 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2594 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2602 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2609 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2617 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2625 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2626 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2627 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2628 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2629 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2630 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2631 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2632 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2633 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2634 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2641 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2649 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2650 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2657 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2658 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2666 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2673 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2680 out section number. Closes: #204731
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2706 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2707 removal. Closes: #204286
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2714 renaming. Closes: #203548
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2721 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2722 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2732 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2738 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2744 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2747 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2748 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2749 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2756 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2757 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2774 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2777 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2785 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2792 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2794 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2795 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2802 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2810 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2822 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2829 it break hard links (see #188663).
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2836 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2846 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2850 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2851 debconf-mergetemplates
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2855 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2858 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2862 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2865 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2869 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2872 * Update debhelper(1).
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2876 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2879 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2880 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2881 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2882 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2883 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2887 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2890 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2891 the shell. Closes: #178524
2892 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2896 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2899 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2903 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2906 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2910 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2913 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2914 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2915 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2916 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2921 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2924 files from installation.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2928 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2931 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2932 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2936 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2939 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2943 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2946 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2950 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2956 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2962 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2966 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2967 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2969 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2973 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2976 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2977 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2978 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2979 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2983 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2986 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2990 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2993 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2994 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2998 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3002 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3017 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3018 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3019 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3027 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3028 practice. Closes: #163303
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3048 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3050 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3051 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3052 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3053 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3054 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3061 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3079 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3082 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3093 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3105 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3115 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3116 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3117 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3118 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3136 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3139 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3140 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3144 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3147 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3148 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3149 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3150 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3151 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3158 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3160 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3168 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3175 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3176 right thing. Closes: #150644
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Stupid, evil typo.
3183 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3197 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3198 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3212 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3219 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3220 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3228 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3232 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3238 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3241 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3242 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3246 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3252 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Removing perl warning message.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3258 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3261 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3262 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3263 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3264 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3265 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3266 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3267 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3268 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3272 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3278 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3288 debconf-mergetemplate.
3289 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3290 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3297 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3298 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3299 dh_install, which ...
3300 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3301 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3302 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3303 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3304 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3305 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3306 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3307 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3308 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3309 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3310 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3311 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3312 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3313 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3314 other minor changes.
3315 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3316 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3317 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3318 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3319 course there's -X ..)
3320 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3321 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3322 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3324 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3325 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3326 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3327 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3328 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3339 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3342 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3346 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3352 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3358 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3364 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3370 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3373 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3374 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3375 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3376 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3378 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3379 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3383 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3392 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3396 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3399 upset. Closes: #131322
3401 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3403 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3406 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3407 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3408 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3409 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3410 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3411 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3412 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3413 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3414 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3415 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3416 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3417 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3418 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3419 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3420 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3422 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3426 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3429 - Better indenting of generated code.
3430 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3438 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3439 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3440 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3441 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3442 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3443 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3444 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3448 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3451 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3455 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3458 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3459 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3460 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3461 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3462 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3463 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3464 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3465 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3466 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3467 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3468 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3469 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3470 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3471 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3472 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3477 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3483 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3486 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3487 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3491 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3494 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3495 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3499 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3505 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3508 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3509 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3510 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3511 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3512 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3517 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3523 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3526 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3530 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3533 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3538 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3544 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3547 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3551 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3561 Also some indentation fixes.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3565 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3568 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3569 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3570 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3571 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3572 Closes: #106514, #85520
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3582 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3594 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3600 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3609 change it in debhelper v4..
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3619 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3622 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3626 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3629 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3633 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3642 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3643 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3644 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3645 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3646 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3647 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3648 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3649 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3650 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3651 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3652 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3653 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3660 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3664 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3671 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3674 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3675 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3676 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3677 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3678 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3679 program those options go to. So, for example,
3680 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3681 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3682 something complex. Closes: #89311
3683 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3690 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3691 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3692 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3696 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3699 through loop. Closes: #98598
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3703 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Missing semi-colon.
3706 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3707 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3711 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3714 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3715 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3716 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3723 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3724 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3728 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3731 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3735 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3738 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3739 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3743 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3746 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3747 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3748 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3752 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3755 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3756 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3757 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3761 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3764 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3768 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3774 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3780 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3786 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3792 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3795 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3799 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3802 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3803 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3804 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3805 followed. Closes: #85483
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3809 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3811 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3812 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3813 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3817 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3820 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3821 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3822 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3823 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3824 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3825 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3826 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3827 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3828 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3829 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3830 Closes: #88464, #77743
3831 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3832 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3833 us to deal with that gracefully.
3834 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3836 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3837 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3838 a while, Closes: #51225
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3842 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3848 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3851 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3855 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3859 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3864 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3867 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3868 don't make packlist files.
3869 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3870 debhelper coding standards.
3871 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3872 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3876 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3879 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3883 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3886 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3887 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3888 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3889 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3890 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3891 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3892 but is mildly deprecated.
3893 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3894 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3895 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3896 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3897 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3898 switching to statoverrides..
3899 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3900 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3901 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3902 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3903 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3904 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3906 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3907 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3908 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3909 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3910 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3911 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3912 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3913 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3914 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3916 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3917 variable names, pod man pages).
3918 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3919 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3920 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3921 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3922 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3923 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3924 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3944 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3950 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3951 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3952 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3958 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3959 they were previously ignored.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3965 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3966 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3972 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3973 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3974 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3980 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3986 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3987 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3991 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3993 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3994 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3995 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3996 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3997 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3998 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3999 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4000 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4001 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4002 it is an obsolete program.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4008 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4016 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4018 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4022 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4026 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4028 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * typo: Closes, #78567
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4056 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4059 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4060 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4061 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4062 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4063 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4067 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4070 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4078 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4079 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4080 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4081 backwards-compatibility.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4088 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4089 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4090 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4091 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4092 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4093 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4095 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4096 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4097 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4099 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4101 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4102 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4103 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4104 should now be raised to severity important..
4105 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4106 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4113 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4118 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4124 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4130 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4136 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4146 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4147 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4148 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4149 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4153 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4162 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4163 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4164 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4165 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4166 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4167 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4172 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4175 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4179 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4185 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4188 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4196 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4197 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4198 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4199 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4207 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4210 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4213 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4214 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4217 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4219 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4220 the TODO entry about it.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4234 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4235 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4242 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4243 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4244 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4245 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4265 (this appears to be logal).
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4272 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4273 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4274 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4275 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4288 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4289 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4290 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4291 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4304 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4318 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4319 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4320 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4341 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4342 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4343 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4344 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4345 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4346 notice until v2 is complete.
4347 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4348 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4349 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4350 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4351 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4352 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4354 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4355 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4356 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4357 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4377 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4388 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4391 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4392 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4393 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4394 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4402 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4403 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4404 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4412 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4413 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4420 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4427 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4441 depend on the build and install targets.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4448 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4471 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4474 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4475 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4476 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4477 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4478 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4479 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4481 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4482 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4483 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4484 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4485 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4486 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4487 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4497 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4503 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4506 right place. Closes: #55065
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4517 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4520 * Copyright date updates.
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4524 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4527 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4538 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4545 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4551 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4557 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4563 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4566 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4567 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4568 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4569 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4570 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4571 bits until all files have been registered.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4575 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installmanpages:
4578 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4579 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4580 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4581 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4582 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4583 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4584 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4585 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4586 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4587 otherwise change the result at all.
4589 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4590 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4591 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4592 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4593 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4598 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4604 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4607 act on files that don't exist.
4608 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4609 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4610 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4612 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4613 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4614 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4615 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4619 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4625 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4631 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4634 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4638 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4641 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4643 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4644 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4645 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4649 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4652 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4653 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4654 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4655 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4656 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4657 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4658 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4660 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4662 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4666 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4673 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4685 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4688 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4707 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4708 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4709 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4710 I made some changes, though:
4711 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4712 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4713 that is a clear violation of policy.
4714 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4715 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4716 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4717 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4718 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4719 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4720 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4721 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4722 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4724 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4737 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4741 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4744 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4745 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4766 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4767 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4768 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4769 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4770 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4771 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4772 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4786 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4787 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4797 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4800 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4807 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4808 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4812 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4814 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4823 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4827 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4830 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4831 for the dependancies to be generated.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4838 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4845 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4846 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4847 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4855 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4856 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4875 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4888 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4889 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4890 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4891 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4892 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4893 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4894 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4895 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4896 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4897 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4898 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4899 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4906 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4907 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4909 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4910 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4911 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4912 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4913 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4914 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4916 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4917 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4924 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4935 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4938 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4946 for building debhelper.
4947 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4961 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4968 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4969 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4970 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4971 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4972 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4973 it's always available.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4980 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4981 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4982 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4986 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4989 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4990 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5000 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5003 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5007 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5016 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5017 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5018 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5025 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5030 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5033 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5034 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5036 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5037 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5053 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5056 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5063 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5064 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5066 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5070 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5073 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5074 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5075 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5082 things if CDPATH is set.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5086 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5095 seems to make sense for the transition.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5099 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5102 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5107 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5110 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5111 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5118 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5122 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5125 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5126 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5127 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5128 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5132 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5141 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5142 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5143 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5144 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5145 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5146 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5147 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5148 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5149 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5150 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5158 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5159 * README: mention doc/v2
5160 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5161 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5167 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5168 be using this script RSN.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5175 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5176 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5177 more than 1 init script.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5184 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Changed perl version detection.
5191 * Changed call to find.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5198 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5200 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Really include dh_installpam.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5214 * Wrote man page for same.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5218 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5221 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5222 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5237 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5238 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5239 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5240 x bit was being set!
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5247 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5248 well. (Closes: 38900)
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5255 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5256 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5282 help from Julian Gilbey.
5283 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5284 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5285 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5286 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5287 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5288 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5289 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5300 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5322 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5329 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5333 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5336 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5340 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5346 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5349 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5353 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5359 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5368 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5369 may be deleted. (#35845)
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5373 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Various man page enhancements.
5376 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5384 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5385 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5392 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5393 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5394 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5396 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5397 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5402 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5408 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * Another very minor typo fix.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * Very minor typo fix.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5423 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5424 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5434 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5436 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5437 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5438 variables properly (#34850).
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5448 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5451 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5452 (automatically generated by build process).
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5458 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5462 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5465 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5466 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5468 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5475 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * README: minor typo fix.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5485 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5488 leave it at that. :-)
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5498 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5507 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5508 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5509 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5513 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5516 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5523 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5530 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5531 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5532 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5533 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5540 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5541 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5542 Craig Small for spotting this.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5549 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5550 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5560 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5563 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5569 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5570 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5571 working on the last version of debhelper.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5578 being made. (#23255)
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5582 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5588 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5591 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5595 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5598 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5599 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5600 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5601 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5608 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5609 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5610 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5611 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5613 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5614 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5616 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5636 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5637 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5638 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5639 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5640 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5641 suidregister actually supports it.
5642 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5643 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5647 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5654 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5657 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5658 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5659 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5660 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5661 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5662 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5663 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5667 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5669 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5670 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5674 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5677 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5678 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5679 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5680 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5687 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5689 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5690 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5691 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5692 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5693 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5694 effect, either. (#30118)
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5704 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5707 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5708 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5712 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5721 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5722 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5723 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5724 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5731 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5732 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5736 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5745 packages, painlessly.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * The perl conversion is complete.
5771 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5773 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5774 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5775 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5783 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5784 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5785 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5792 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5794 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5796 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5797 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5801 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5804 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5805 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5809 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5815 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5818 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5819 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5820 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5821 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5822 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5826 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5829 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5830 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5831 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5832 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5836 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5839 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5843 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5846 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5847 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5848 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5849 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5850 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5851 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5852 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5853 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5857 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5863 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5866 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5867 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5868 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5876 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5880 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5883 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5887 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5890 sections of shared libraries.
5891 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5892 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5893 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5894 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5895 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5896 things you don't want them to.
5897 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5898 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5905 shared libraries. (#26414)
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5909 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5911 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5912 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5913 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5914 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5922 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5924 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5925 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5926 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5927 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5928 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5932 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5935 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5939 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5942 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5943 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5951 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5958 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5959 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5960 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5961 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5962 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5964 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5965 remove debian/files properly.
5966 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5967 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5968 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5969 * Removed bogus menu file.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5973 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5976 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5980 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5983 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5984 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5985 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5986 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5987 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5988 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5992 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5995 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5996 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5997 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5998 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6002 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6009 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6012 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6013 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6015 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6016 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6017 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6018 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6019 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6020 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6024 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6027 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6028 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6029 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6030 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6031 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6032 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6033 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6034 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6035 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6036 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6037 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6038 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6039 passed any switches.
6040 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6044 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6047 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6048 at all for a long while.
6049 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6050 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6051 large chunks in the process.
6052 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6053 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6054 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6059 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6062 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6064 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6069 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6072 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6073 that don't always have the same files in them.
6074 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6075 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6076 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6080 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6084 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6085 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6086 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6087 updating 27 man pages.
6088 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6089 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6090 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6091 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6092 programs act on. (#25247)
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6096 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6100 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6101 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6102 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6103 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6104 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6105 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6110 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6117 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6124 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6127 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6131 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6137 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6140 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6141 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6142 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6143 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6144 package by accident.
6145 * Is version 1.0 next?
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6149 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6152 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6153 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6157 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6160 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6161 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6162 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6163 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6164 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6166 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6171 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6174 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6175 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6182 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6186 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6189 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6190 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6201 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6204 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6205 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6210 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6216 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6219 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6220 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6221 past week. Thanks, guys!
6223 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6224 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6225 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6226 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6227 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6228 would do in the same situation.
6229 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6230 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6232 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6234 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6235 permissions changed.
6236 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6237 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6238 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6239 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6240 files are treated identically.
6241 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6242 * Minor man page fixes.
6243 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6244 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6245 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6249 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6252 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6253 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6254 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6255 use -X multiple times, too.
6256 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6257 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6261 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6264 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6265 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6269 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6272 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6276 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6279 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6280 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6281 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6282 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6283 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6284 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6285 shape if you're starting a new package.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6289 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6292 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6296 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6299 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6300 because of missing symlinks.
6302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6304 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6306 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6310 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6312 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6313 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6314 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6315 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6316 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6317 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6319 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6320 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6326 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6327 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6328 to be changed after the fact :-)
6329 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6335 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6336 no version string after the -V.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6342 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6343 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6351 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6355 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6358 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6359 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6360 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6361 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6362 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6363 I always welcome corrections!
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6367 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6373 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6376 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6377 * Documented this new switch.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6381 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6384 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6385 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6386 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6387 no packages use the old behavior.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6391 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6394 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6395 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6399 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6402 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6412 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6415 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6419 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6422 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6423 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6424 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6428 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6434 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6437 into the source package by accident.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6441 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6444 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6445 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6446 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6447 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6448 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6449 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6454 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6458 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6459 inspired to implement some of it.
6460 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6464 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6467 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6471 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6474 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6475 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6479 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6482 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6483 have done.) (#17598)
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6487 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6493 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6499 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6502 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6506 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6509 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6510 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6517 argument processor in perl.
6518 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6519 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6520 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6521 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6525 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6528 type directories. (#16933)
6529 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6530 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6531 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6532 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6533 are supported. (#16935)
6534 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6542 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6546 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6550 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6551 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6552 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6553 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6554 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6555 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6559 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6561 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6562 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6563 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6565 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6566 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6567 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6568 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6569 a given package, or -i or -a.
6570 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6571 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6572 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6573 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6574 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6575 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6576 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6577 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6578 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6580 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6581 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6582 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6589 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6590 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6595 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6597 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6598 does not have a section.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6605 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6606 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6607 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * Fixed typo #16215.
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6617 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6620 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6621 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6622 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6623 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6624 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6632 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6633 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6634 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6645 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6651 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6654 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6655 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6656 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6657 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6658 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6659 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6663 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6665 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6672 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6679 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6680 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6681 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6688 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6698 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6701 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6705 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6707 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6708 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6712 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6718 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6720 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6721 postinst, postrm, etc.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6725 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6731 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6734 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6735 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6736 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6737 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6738 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6742 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6745 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6746 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6753 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6757 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6760 installing package files into.
6761 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6770 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6774 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6780 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6783 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6787 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6789 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6790 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6791 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6792 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6793 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6797 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6799 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6800 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6801 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6802 multiple binary packages.
6803 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6804 should rebuild them with this version.
6805 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6812 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6816 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6819 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6823 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6825 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6826 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6827 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6828 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6829 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6830 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6831 debian/README.debian.
6832 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6833 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6834 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6835 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6836 in a few situations.)
6838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6840 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6842 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6846 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6848 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6852 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6855 * Fixed several man pages.
6857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6859 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6861 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6862 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6863 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6867 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6869 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6870 is ready for general use.
6871 * Added man pages for all commands.
6872 * Multiple binary package support.
6873 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6874 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6875 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6877 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6878 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6879 auto-installed as parameters.
6880 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6882 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6885 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6886 the package build directory it is to act on.
6887 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6888 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6889 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6893 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6895 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6896 ready to replace debstd.
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400