1 debhelper (7.4.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Typo. Closes: #558654
4 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
5 installed. Closes: #558782
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:06:48 -0500
9 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
12 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
13 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
14 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
15 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
16 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
20 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
22 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
23 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
24 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
25 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
29 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
32 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
33 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
37 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
39 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
43 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
45 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
46 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
47 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
48 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
49 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
50 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
51 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
52 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
53 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
54 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
55 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
56 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
57 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
58 time soon.) Closes: #554509
59 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
61 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
62 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
63 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
64 document id. Closes: #555677
65 * Typo. Closes: #555659
66 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
67 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
68 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
69 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
71 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
72 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
73 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
78 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
81 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
82 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
83 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
84 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
85 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
86 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
87 translation (#494300 part 2)
90 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
92 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
93 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
94 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
95 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
96 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
100 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
103 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
104 (It was only run once due to logging.)
105 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
106 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
107 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
108 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
109 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
110 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
111 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
112 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
113 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
114 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
118 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
122 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
125 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
126 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
130 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
133 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
134 flag with arch all/any packages.
135 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
136 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
137 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
138 situation. Closes: #540794
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
142 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
146 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
147 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
148 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
149 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
150 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
153 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
154 the default. Closes: #538201
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
159 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
163 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
164 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
165 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
166 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
167 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
169 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
170 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
171 * Above Closes: #491117
172 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
177 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
183 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
184 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
185 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
189 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
192 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
193 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
194 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
195 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
196 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
201 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
204 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
205 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
209 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
211 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
215 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
217 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
218 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
220 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
221 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
222 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
226 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
228 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
229 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
233 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
239 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
241 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
242 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
243 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
248 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
250 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
254 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
257 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
258 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
259 created by using `python' first during build and install.
261 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
266 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
268 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
272 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
274 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
275 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
279 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
281 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
285 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
287 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
291 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
293 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
294 contributed by Modestas Vainius
295 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
296 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
297 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
298 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
299 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
300 that support it. Closes: #480577
301 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
302 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
303 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
305 - Adds support for cmake.
306 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
307 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
309 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
311 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
312 that use them. The options are:
313 --sourcedir, --destdir
314 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
315 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
316 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
317 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
318 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
322 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
328 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
331 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
332 default. Closes: #537140
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
336 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
339 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
340 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
344 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
347 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
351 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
354 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
358 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
361 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
363 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
364 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
365 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
369 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
372 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
373 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
374 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
378 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
381 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
382 warning or deprecation message.
383 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
384 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
385 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
386 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
387 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
388 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
389 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
390 Closes: #534639, #357434
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
394 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
400 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
403 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
404 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
405 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
406 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
408 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
409 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
410 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
414 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
420 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
427 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
430 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
434 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
438 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
439 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
441 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
442 file support. Closes: #494914
443 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
447 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
450 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
451 parameters. Closes: #527256
452 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
453 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
454 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
462 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
463 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
464 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
468 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
471 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
472 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
473 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
477 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
480 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
481 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
483 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
484 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
485 by triggers). Closes: #521181
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
489 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
493 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
497 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
500 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
501 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
502 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
503 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
514 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
517 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
518 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
519 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
520 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
521 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
523 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
524 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
525 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
526 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
527 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
528 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
532 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
535 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
536 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
537 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
538 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
539 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
541 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
545 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
547 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
551 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
553 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
554 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
555 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
556 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
557 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
558 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
559 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
560 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
561 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
562 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
563 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
567 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
569 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
570 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
572 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
573 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
574 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
575 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
577 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
578 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
582 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
584 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
585 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
586 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
587 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
588 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
589 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
590 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
592 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
593 that uses them. Affected options are:
594 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
595 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
596 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
597 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
598 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
599 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
600 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
601 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
602 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
603 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
604 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
605 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
609 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
616 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
622 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
624 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
625 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
627 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
628 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
629 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
630 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
631 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
633 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
635 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
636 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
637 rules (see bug #509756).
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
641 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
647 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
648 * Typo. Closes: #493062
649 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
650 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
654 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
657 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
658 empty files. Closes: #490937
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
662 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
668 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
675 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
678 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
679 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
680 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
681 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
686 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
688 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
689 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
690 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
691 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
695 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
698 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
699 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
700 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
701 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
702 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
706 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
713 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
715 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
716 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
717 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
718 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
719 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
720 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
721 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
722 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
723 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
724 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
728 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
731 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
732 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
733 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
734 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
736 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
737 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
738 breaking backwards compatibility.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
742 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
745 message in perl 5.10.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
749 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
755 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Convert copyright file to new format.
758 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
762 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
765 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
769 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
772 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
773 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
774 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
775 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
776 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
777 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
778 logging by dh_listpackages.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
782 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
785 run and there are no packages of that type.
786 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
787 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
788 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
789 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
791 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
792 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
796 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
798 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
799 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
800 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
804 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
807 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
808 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
810 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
811 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
812 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
813 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
814 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
815 planned but not yet implemented.)
816 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
817 if the Makefile has such a target.
818 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
819 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
820 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
821 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
822 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
823 but not yet implemented.)
824 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
825 recommended default, especially when using dh.
826 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
827 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
828 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
830 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
832 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
833 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
835 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
836 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
837 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
842 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
845 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
846 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
850 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
852 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
853 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
854 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
858 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
864 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
870 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
873 just those installed by the program.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
877 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
880 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
881 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
885 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
888 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
889 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
890 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
891 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
895 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
898 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
899 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
903 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
906 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
907 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
911 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
914 with policy. Closes: #461392
915 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
916 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
917 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
918 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
919 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
923 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
926 Closes: #460340, #460351
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
930 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
933 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
934 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
935 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
936 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
940 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
943 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
944 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
945 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
946 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
947 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
948 package build directory won't work.
949 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
950 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
951 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
952 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
953 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
954 mode. Closes: #459426
955 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
960 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
963 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
967 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
971 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
972 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
973 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
974 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
975 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
976 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
980 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
983 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
984 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
985 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
986 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
990 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
993 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
994 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
995 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
996 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
997 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1001 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1004 debian/package.triggers files.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1008 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1011 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1015 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1018 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1019 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1020 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1021 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1026 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1029 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1036 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1037 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1039 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1044 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1048 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1049 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1050 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1054 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1061 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1068 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1071 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1073 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1074 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1075 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1077 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1078 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1079 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1083 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1086 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1087 * Update urls to web page.
1088 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1089 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1090 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1091 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1095 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1098 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1099 - typo in alternatives call
1100 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1102 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1103 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1107 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1110 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1115 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1121 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1127 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1130 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1132 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1133 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1134 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1135 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1136 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1137 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1138 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1139 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1140 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1141 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1142 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1146 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1149 package install. Closes: #415717
1150 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1151 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1152 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1153 script and then remove the python files.
1154 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1155 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1156 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1157 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1158 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1159 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1160 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1161 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1162 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1163 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1164 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1165 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1166 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1170 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Correct typo in french translation
1176 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1177 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1179 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1181 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1182 Closes: #406921, #381940
1183 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1185 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1186 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1187 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1188 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1189 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1190 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1191 specified). Closes: #381851
1192 * Misc minor changes.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1196 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1203 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1204 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1214 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1215 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1218 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1219 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1221 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1222 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1223 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1224 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1231 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1234 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1238 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1244 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1250 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1251 a difficult situation.
1252 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1253 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1254 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1255 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1256 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1257 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1258 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1259 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1260 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1261 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1265 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Non-maintainer upload.
1268 * Update of dh_python
1269 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1270 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1272 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1273 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1274 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1275 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1276 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1278 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1280 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Non-maintainer upload.
1283 * Update of dh_python
1284 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1285 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1286 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1287 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1288 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1289 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1290 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1291 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1292 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1293 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1295 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1296 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1297 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1298 the not too-distant future).
1299 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1300 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1301 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1302 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1303 thus made the build fail.
1305 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1307 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Non-maintainer upload.
1310 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1312 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1314 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1317 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1318 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1319 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1320 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1321 package. Closes: #301424
1322 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1323 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1324 fonts). Closes: #372686
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1328 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1334 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1335 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1336 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1337 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1338 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1339 above, but already depends on that.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1343 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1346 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1347 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1348 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1349 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1350 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1354 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1366 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1367 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1371 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1374 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1378 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1382 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1383 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1384 new version (0.24.1).
1385 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1386 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1389 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1390 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1391 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1392 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1393 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1394 new directory on their own.
1395 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1396 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1400 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1403 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1404 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1405 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1406 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1410 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1413 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1414 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1415 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1416 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1417 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1421 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1427 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1431 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1432 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1436 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1437 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1441 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1443 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1444 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1446 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1447 ignored. Closes: #337664
1449 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1454 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1460 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1465 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1466 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1467 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1468 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1469 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1470 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1471 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1475 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1478 version. Closes: #350607
1479 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1480 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1481 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1482 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1486 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1489 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1490 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1491 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1495 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1508 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1511 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1515 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1518 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1519 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1520 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1521 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1522 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1523 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1527 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1530 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1531 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1539 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1546 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1550 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1553 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1554 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1555 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1556 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1557 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1558 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1562 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1566 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1567 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1568 link. Closes: #346405
1569 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1571 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1572 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1573 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1574 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1575 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1576 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1577 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1581 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1588 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1597 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1604 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1613 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1614 installed. Closes: #342033
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1618 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1621 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1622 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1623 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1628 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1634 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1640 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1644 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1645 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1646 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1653 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1658 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1665 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1671 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1674 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1675 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1676 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1677 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1678 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1679 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1680 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1682 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1689 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1690 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1697 in standard man dirs.
1698 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1711 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1730 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1733 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1734 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1741 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1742 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1743 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1745 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1747 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1753 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1759 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1762 mode. Closes: #324161
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1769 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1770 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1771 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1772 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1780 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1781 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1782 is necesary for sanity.
1783 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1784 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1791 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1792 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1799 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1812 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1813 released, so use at your own risk.
1814 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1815 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1817 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1818 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1819 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1820 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1821 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1822 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1823 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1824 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1825 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1826 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1827 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1828 including twice per config file line now..
1829 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1830 and simplfy the rules file.
1831 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1832 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1833 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1835 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1836 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1843 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1850 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1857 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1864 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1865 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1866 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1867 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1868 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1869 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1876 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1877 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1878 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1886 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1887 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1892 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1895 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1896 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1897 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1902 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1905 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1906 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1907 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1927 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1928 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1929 unknown. Closes: #282924
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1933 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1940 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Spanish man page updates.
1943 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1957 * dh_desktop: reindent
1958 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1959 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1971 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1977 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1981 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1984 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1985 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1989 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2011 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2018 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2019 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2020 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2021 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2022 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2023 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2025 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2026 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2027 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2028 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2029 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2030 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2031 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2032 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2033 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2034 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2035 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2036 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2037 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2038 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2039 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2040 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2054 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2058 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2061 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2068 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2075 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2091 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2097 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2100 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2101 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2102 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2106 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2109 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2113 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2116 but occasionally right and necessary.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2120 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2123 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2124 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2125 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2126 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2127 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2134 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2136 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2137 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2138 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2139 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2140 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2141 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2142 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2143 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2144 postinst scripts for udebs.
2145 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2152 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2154 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2155 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2159 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2165 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2182 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2189 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2193 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2196 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2199 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2200 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2210 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2213 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2220 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2221 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2222 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2224 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2226 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2227 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2228 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2235 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2243 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2244 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2245 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2265 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2266 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2267 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2268 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2269 associated -dbg packages.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2276 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2283 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2290 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2297 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2305 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2312 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2320 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2328 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2329 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2330 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2331 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2332 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2333 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2334 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2335 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2336 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2337 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2344 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2352 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2353 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2360 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2361 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2369 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2376 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2383 out section number. Closes: #204731
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2409 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2410 removal. Closes: #204286
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2417 renaming. Closes: #203548
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2424 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2425 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2441 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2447 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2450 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2451 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2452 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2459 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2460 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2480 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2488 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2495 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2497 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2498 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2505 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2513 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2525 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2532 it break hard links (see #188663).
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2539 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2549 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2553 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2554 debconf-mergetemplates
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2558 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2561 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2568 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2575 * Update debhelper(1).
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2582 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2583 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2584 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2585 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2586 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2590 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2593 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2594 the shell. Closes: #178524
2595 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2599 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2602 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2606 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2609 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2613 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2616 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2617 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2618 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2619 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2624 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2627 files from installation.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2631 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2634 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2635 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2639 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2642 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2646 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2649 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2653 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2669 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2670 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2672 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2679 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2680 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2681 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2682 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2686 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2689 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2693 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2696 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2697 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2705 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2720 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2721 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2722 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2730 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2731 practice. Closes: #163303
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2751 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2753 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2754 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2755 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2756 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2757 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2764 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2785 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2802 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2818 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2819 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2820 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2821 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2842 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2843 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2850 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2851 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2852 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2853 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2854 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2861 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2863 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2871 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2878 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2879 right thing. Closes: #150644
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Stupid, evil typo.
2886 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2900 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2901 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2906 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2915 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2922 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2923 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2931 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2944 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2945 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Removing perl warning message.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2964 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2965 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2966 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2967 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2968 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2969 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2970 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2971 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2991 debconf-mergetemplate.
2992 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2993 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2997 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3000 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3001 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3002 dh_install, which ...
3003 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3004 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3005 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3006 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3007 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3008 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3009 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3010 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3011 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3012 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3013 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3014 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3015 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3016 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3017 other minor changes.
3018 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3019 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3020 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3021 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3022 course there's -X ..)
3023 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3024 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3025 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3027 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3028 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3029 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3030 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3031 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3045 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3049 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3055 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3061 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3067 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3073 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3076 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3077 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3078 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3079 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3081 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3082 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3086 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3092 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3095 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3099 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3102 upset. Closes: #131322
3104 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3106 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3109 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3110 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3111 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3112 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3113 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3114 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3115 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3116 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3117 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3118 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3119 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3120 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3121 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3122 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3123 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3125 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3129 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3132 - Better indenting of generated code.
3133 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3137 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3141 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3142 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3143 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3144 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3145 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3146 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3147 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3151 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3154 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3158 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3161 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3162 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3163 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3164 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3165 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3166 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3167 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3168 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3169 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3170 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3171 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3172 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3173 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3174 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3175 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3180 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3186 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3189 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3190 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3194 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3197 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3198 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3202 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3208 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3211 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3212 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3213 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3214 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3215 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3220 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3226 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3229 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3233 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3236 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3241 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3247 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3250 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3254 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3260 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3264 Also some indentation fixes.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3268 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3271 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3272 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3273 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3274 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3275 Closes: #106514, #85520
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3279 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3285 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3291 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3297 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3303 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3309 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3312 change it in debhelper v4..
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3316 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3322 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3325 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3329 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3332 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3336 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3342 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3345 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3346 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3347 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3348 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3349 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3350 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3351 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3352 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3353 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3354 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3355 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3356 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3363 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3367 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3377 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3378 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3379 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3380 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3381 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3382 program those options go to. So, for example,
3383 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3384 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3385 something complex. Closes: #89311
3386 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3390 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3393 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3394 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3395 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3399 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3402 through loop. Closes: #98598
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3406 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Missing semi-colon.
3409 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3410 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3417 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3418 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3419 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3423 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3426 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3427 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3434 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3438 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3441 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3442 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3449 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3450 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3451 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3458 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3459 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3460 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3464 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3467 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3471 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3477 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3483 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3489 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3495 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3498 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3502 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3505 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3506 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3507 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3508 followed. Closes: #85483
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3512 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3514 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3515 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3516 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3520 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3523 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3524 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3525 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3526 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3527 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3528 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3529 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3530 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3531 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3532 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3533 Closes: #88464, #77743
3534 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3535 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3536 us to deal with that gracefully.
3537 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3539 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3540 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3541 a while, Closes: #51225
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3545 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3551 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3554 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3558 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3562 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3567 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3570 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3571 don't make packlist files.
3572 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3573 debhelper coding standards.
3574 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3575 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3579 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3582 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3586 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3589 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3590 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3591 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3592 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3593 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3594 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3595 but is mildly deprecated.
3596 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3597 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3598 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3599 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3600 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3601 switching to statoverrides..
3602 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3603 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3604 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3605 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3606 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3607 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3609 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3610 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3611 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3612 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3613 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3614 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3615 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3616 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3617 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3619 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3620 variable names, pod man pages).
3621 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3622 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3623 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3624 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3625 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3626 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3627 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3644 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3647 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3653 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3654 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3655 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3659 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3661 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3662 they were previously ignored.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3666 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3668 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3669 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3675 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3676 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3677 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3681 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3683 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3689 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3690 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3694 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3696 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3697 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3698 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3699 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3700 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3701 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3702 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3703 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3704 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3705 it is an obsolete program.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3711 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3719 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3725 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3729 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3731 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * typo: Closes, #78567
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3762 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3763 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3764 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3765 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3766 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3773 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3778 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3781 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3782 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3783 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3784 backwards-compatibility.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3791 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3792 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3793 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3794 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3795 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3796 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3798 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3799 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3800 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3802 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3804 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3805 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3806 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3807 should now be raised to severity important..
3808 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3809 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3816 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3849 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3850 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3851 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3852 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3865 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3866 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3867 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3868 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3869 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3870 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3878 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3891 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3899 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3900 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3901 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3902 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3910 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3913 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3916 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3917 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3920 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3922 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3923 the TODO entry about it.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3927 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3937 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3938 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3945 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3946 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3947 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3948 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3968 (this appears to be logal).
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3975 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3976 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3977 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3978 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3991 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3992 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3993 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3994 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4007 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4021 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4022 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4023 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4044 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4045 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4046 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4047 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4048 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4049 notice until v2 is complete.
4050 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4051 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4052 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4053 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4054 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4055 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4057 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4058 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4059 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4060 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4080 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4094 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4095 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4096 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4097 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4105 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4106 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4107 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4115 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4116 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4123 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4130 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4144 depend on the build and install targets.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4151 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4177 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4178 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4179 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4180 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4181 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4182 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4184 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4185 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4186 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4187 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4188 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4189 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4190 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4209 right place. Closes: #55065
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4223 * Copyright date updates.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4227 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4230 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4235 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4241 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4269 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4270 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4271 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4272 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4273 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4274 bits until all files have been registered.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installmanpages:
4281 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4282 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4283 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4284 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4285 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4286 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4287 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4288 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4289 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4290 otherwise change the result at all.
4292 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4293 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4294 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4295 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4296 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4307 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4310 act on files that don't exist.
4311 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4312 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4313 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4315 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4316 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4317 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4318 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4337 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4341 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4344 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4346 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4347 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4348 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4355 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4356 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4357 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4358 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4359 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4360 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4361 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4363 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4365 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4369 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4376 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4388 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4391 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4395 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4410 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4411 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4412 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4413 I made some changes, though:
4414 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4415 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4416 that is a clear violation of policy.
4417 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4418 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4419 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4420 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4421 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4422 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4423 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4424 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4425 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4427 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4440 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4447 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4448 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4469 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4470 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4471 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4472 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4473 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4474 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4475 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4489 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4490 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4494 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4500 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4503 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4510 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4511 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4517 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4522 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4526 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4533 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4534 for the dependancies to be generated.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4541 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4548 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4549 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4550 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4558 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4559 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4563 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4569 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4578 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4591 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4592 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4593 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4594 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4595 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4596 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4597 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4598 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4599 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4600 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4601 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4602 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4609 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4610 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4612 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4613 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4614 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4615 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4616 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4617 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4619 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4620 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4627 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4641 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4649 for building debhelper.
4650 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4664 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4671 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4672 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4673 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4674 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4675 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4676 it's always available.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4683 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4684 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4685 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4692 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4693 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4706 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4719 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4720 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4721 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4728 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4733 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4736 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4737 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4739 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4740 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4759 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4766 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4767 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4769 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4776 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4777 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4778 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4785 things if CDPATH is set.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4798 seems to make sense for the transition.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4805 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4813 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4814 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4818 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4821 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4825 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4828 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4829 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4830 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4831 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4844 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4845 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4846 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4847 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4848 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4849 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4850 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4851 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4852 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4853 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4861 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4862 * README: mention doc/v2
4863 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4864 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4870 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4871 be using this script RSN.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4875 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4878 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4879 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4880 more than 1 init script.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4887 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4891 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Changed perl version detection.
4894 * Changed call to find.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4898 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4901 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4903 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * Really include dh_installpam.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4917 * Wrote man page for same.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4924 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4925 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4940 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4941 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4942 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4943 x bit was being set!
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4950 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4951 well. (Closes: 38900)
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4958 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4959 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4969 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4976 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4985 help from Julian Gilbey.
4986 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4987 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4988 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4989 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4990 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4991 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4992 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5025 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5032 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5039 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5052 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5071 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5072 may be deleted. (#35845)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5076 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * Various man page enhancements.
5079 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5087 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5088 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5095 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5096 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5097 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5099 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5100 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5111 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Another very minor typo fix.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5117 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Very minor typo fix.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5123 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5126 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5127 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5140 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5141 variables properly (#34850).
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5154 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5155 (automatically generated by build process).
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5159 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5161 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5168 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5169 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5171 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5178 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5182 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * README: minor typo fix.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5188 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5191 leave it at that. :-)
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5210 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5211 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5212 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5216 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5219 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5226 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5233 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5234 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5235 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5236 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5243 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5244 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5245 Craig Small for spotting this.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5252 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5253 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5266 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5272 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5273 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5274 working on the last version of debhelper.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5281 being made. (#23255)
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5285 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5294 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5301 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5302 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5303 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5304 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5308 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5311 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5312 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5313 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5314 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5316 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5317 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5319 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5339 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5340 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5341 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5342 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5343 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5344 suidregister actually supports it.
5345 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5346 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5350 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5357 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5360 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5361 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5362 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5363 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5364 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5365 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5366 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5370 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5372 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5373 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5377 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5380 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5381 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5382 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5383 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5390 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5392 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5393 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5394 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5395 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5396 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5397 effect, either. (#30118)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5407 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5410 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5411 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5424 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5425 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5426 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5427 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5434 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5435 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5448 packages, painlessly.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5452 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5470 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * The perl conversion is complete.
5474 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5476 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5477 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5486 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5487 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5488 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5495 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5497 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5499 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5500 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5507 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5508 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5512 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5518 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5521 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5522 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5523 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5524 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5525 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5532 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5533 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5534 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5535 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5542 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5549 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5550 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5551 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5552 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5553 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5554 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5555 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5556 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5560 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5569 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5570 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5571 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5579 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5583 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5586 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5593 sections of shared libraries.
5594 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5595 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5596 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5597 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5598 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5599 things you don't want them to.
5600 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5601 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5605 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5608 shared libraries. (#26414)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5612 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5614 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5615 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5616 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5617 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5621 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5625 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5627 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5628 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5629 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5630 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5631 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5635 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5638 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5642 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5645 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5646 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5654 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5658 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5661 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5662 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5663 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5664 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5665 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5667 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5668 remove debian/files properly.
5669 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5670 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5671 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5672 * Removed bogus menu file.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5679 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5686 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5687 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5688 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5689 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5690 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5691 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5695 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5698 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5699 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5700 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5701 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5712 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5715 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5716 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5718 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5719 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5720 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5721 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5722 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5723 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5727 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5730 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5731 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5732 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5733 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5734 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5735 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5736 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5737 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5738 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5739 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5740 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5741 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5742 passed any switches.
5743 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5750 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5751 at all for a long while.
5752 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5753 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5754 large chunks in the process.
5755 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5756 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5757 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5765 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5767 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5772 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5775 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5776 that don't always have the same files in them.
5777 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5778 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5779 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5783 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5787 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5788 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5789 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5790 updating 27 man pages.
5791 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5792 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5793 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5794 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5795 programs act on. (#25247)
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5803 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5804 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5805 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5806 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5807 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5808 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5813 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5820 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5827 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5830 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5834 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5840 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5843 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5844 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5845 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5846 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5847 package by accident.
5848 * Is version 1.0 next?
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5852 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5855 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5856 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5860 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5863 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5864 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5865 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5866 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5867 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5869 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5874 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5877 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5878 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5882 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5885 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5889 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5892 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5893 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5898 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5904 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5907 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5908 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5913 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5919 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5922 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5923 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5924 past week. Thanks, guys!
5926 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5927 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5928 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5929 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5930 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5931 would do in the same situation.
5932 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5933 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5935 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5937 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5938 permissions changed.
5939 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5940 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5941 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5942 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5943 files are treated identically.
5944 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5945 * Minor man page fixes.
5946 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5947 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5948 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5952 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5955 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5956 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5957 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5958 use -X multiple times, too.
5959 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5960 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5964 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5967 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5968 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5972 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5975 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5979 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5982 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5983 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5984 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5985 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5986 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5987 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5988 shape if you're starting a new package.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5992 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5995 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5999 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6002 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6003 because of missing symlinks.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6007 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6013 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6016 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6017 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6018 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6019 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6020 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6022 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6023 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6027 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6029 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6030 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6031 to be changed after the fact :-)
6032 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6036 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6039 no version string after the -V.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6043 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6045 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6046 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6051 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6054 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6058 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6061 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6062 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6063 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6064 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6065 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6066 I always welcome corrections!
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6070 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6076 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6079 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6080 * Documented this new switch.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6084 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6087 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6088 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6089 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6090 no packages use the old behavior.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6094 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6097 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6098 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6105 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6109 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6115 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6118 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6122 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6125 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6126 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6127 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6131 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6137 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6140 into the source package by accident.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6147 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6148 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6149 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6150 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6151 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6152 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6157 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6161 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6162 inspired to implement some of it.
6163 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6167 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6170 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6174 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6177 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6178 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6182 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6185 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6186 have done.) (#17598)
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6190 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6202 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6205 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6209 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6212 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6213 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6217 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6220 argument processor in perl.
6221 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6222 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6223 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6224 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6231 type directories. (#16933)
6232 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6233 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6234 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6235 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6236 are supported. (#16935)
6237 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6242 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6244 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6245 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6249 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6253 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6254 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6255 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6256 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6257 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6258 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6265 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6266 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6268 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6269 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6270 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6271 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6272 a given package, or -i or -a.
6273 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6274 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6275 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6276 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6277 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6278 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6279 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6280 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6281 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6283 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6284 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6285 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6289 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6292 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6293 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6298 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6301 does not have a section.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6305 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6308 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6309 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6310 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6314 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * Fixed typo #16215.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6320 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6323 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6324 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6325 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6326 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6327 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6332 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6335 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6336 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6337 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6354 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6357 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6358 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6359 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6360 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6361 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6362 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6372 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6375 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6379 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6382 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6383 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6384 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6388 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6391 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6395 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6401 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6404 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6411 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6415 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6424 postinst, postrm, etc.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6428 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6434 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6437 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6438 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6439 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6440 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6441 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6445 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6447 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6448 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6449 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6453 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6456 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6463 installing package files into.
6464 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6469 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6473 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6483 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6486 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6490 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6493 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6494 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6495 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6496 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6500 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6502 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6503 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6504 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6505 multiple binary packages.
6506 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6507 should rebuild them with this version.
6508 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6512 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6515 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6519 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6522 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6526 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6529 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6530 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6531 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6532 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6533 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6534 debian/README.debian.
6535 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6536 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6537 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6538 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6539 in a few situations.)
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6543 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6549 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6555 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6558 * Fixed several man pages.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6562 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6565 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6566 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6570 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6573 is ready for general use.
6574 * Added man pages for all commands.
6575 * Multiple binary package support.
6576 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6577 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6578 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6580 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6581 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6582 auto-installed as parameters.
6583 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6585 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6588 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6589 the package build directory it is to act on.
6590 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6591 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6592 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6596 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6598 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6599 ready to replace debstd.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400