Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing --buildsystem...

[debhelper.git] / debian / changelog

debhelper (8.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
  * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
  * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
    --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:16:48 -0400

debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
    build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
    without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
    the targets. Closes: #629139
    (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
  * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
    in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
  * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
    listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
    are already set to other values will not be changed.
    Closes: #544844
  * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
  * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
  * Fix example. Closes: #627534
  * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
  * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
    the CMakeCache.txt.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400

debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400

debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
  * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some 
    gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400

debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
    not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
    when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
    it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
    for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
    for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development, 
    and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
  * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
    Closes: #623709

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400

debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
    in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
    build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
    Closes: #615553
  * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
    changes may be added to that mode.
  * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
  * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
    directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
  * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
    make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
  * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
    If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
    multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
  * Removed old example rules files.
  * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
    Closes: #604727

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * update french translation.
  * Fix french misspelling.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400

debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
    the overridden command. Closes: #613418

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400

debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
    triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
    (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
  * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
    --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
    in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
    and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
    commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400

debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
    python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
    the shebang line. Closes: #589759
  * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
  * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
  * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
    Closes: #600913
  * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
    which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
    to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
    dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
    (Thanks, Colin Watson)
  * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
    (Thanks, David Prévot)
  * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
  * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
    to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
    target fails. Closes: #601037
  * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
    Closes: #601204
  * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
  * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
    install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
    (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
  * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
    to be listed.
  * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
    only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
    Closes: #606036
  * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
    (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
  * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
    Closes: #608907
  * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
    Closes: #610340
    (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
  
  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * update french translation.
  * Fix french misspelling.
  * French translation update after massive man page typography 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400

debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Carsten Hey ]
  * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400

debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400

debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
    since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
    introduced by the fix to #527990.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400

debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
    changes are planned for that mode.
  * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
  * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
    target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of 
    Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
  * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
  * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
  * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
    (genesis) still uses them.
  * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
    avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
  * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
    file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
  * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
    subdirectories. Closes: #521258
  * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
    commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
  * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
    libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
    used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
    means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
    not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
    may break some packages. Closes: #557603
  * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
    (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
    This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
    commands. (See #570039)
  * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
    Closes: #578805
  * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
    Closes: #586065

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400

debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
    (Raphael Geissert)
  * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
    in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
    in control file or debhelper config files.
  * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400

debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
    dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
    do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400

debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
    calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400

debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
  * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
  * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400

debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated French translation.
  * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
    with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
  * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
    not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
    Closes: #570373
  * Typo. Closes: #571968
  * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
    to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
    failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
    target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
    can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
    packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
    is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
  * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
  * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
    Closes: #574351
  * dh: Improve documentation.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400

debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
    that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
    when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500

debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
    as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500

debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
  * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500

debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
  * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
    something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
  * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
  * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
    options that they do not support.
  * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
    This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
    that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
    (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
  * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
  * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
    Closes: #567737

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500

debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
    Closes: #560421
  * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
    dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
  * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
  * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
    --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
    xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
    (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
  * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
    call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500

debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
    without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
  * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
    dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
    broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500

debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo. Closes: #558654
  * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
    installed. Closes: #558782

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500

debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
    be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
    some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
  * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
  * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
    Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500

debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
    of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
    after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
    with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500

debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
  * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
  * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500

debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500

debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
    now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
    DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
  * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
    or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
    building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
    parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
  * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
    debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
    mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
  * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
  * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
    options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
    time soon.) Closes: #554509
  * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
    Closes: #548382
  * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
    (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
  * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
    document id. Closes: #555677
  * Typo. Closes: #555659
  * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
    Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
  * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
    it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
    Closes: #556384
  * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
    autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
    makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
    (Modestas Vainius)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500

debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
  * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
  * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
    dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
    dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
  * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
    translation (#494300 part 2)
  
  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
    Closes: #546683
  * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
  * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
    to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
    of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
    lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400

debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
  * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
    (It was only run once due to logging.)
  * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
    documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
    than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
    Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
  * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
    dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
    python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
  * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
    to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
    is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400

debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
    symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations.  Closes: #536035.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041 
  * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400

debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
    is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
    flag with arch all/any packages.
  * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
    do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
    that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
    situation. Closes: #540794

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400

debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
    Closes: #543364
  * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
    everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
    it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
  * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
    by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
    Closes: #543392
    (Modestas Vainius)
  * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
    the default. Closes: #538201
    (Modestas Vainius)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400

debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
    /lib/udev/rules.d/
  * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
    they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
    the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
    Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge -- 
    I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
    that.)
  * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
    If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
  * Above Closes: #491117
  * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
    /etc/udev/rules.d/.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400

debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
  * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
  * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400

debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
    To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
    --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
    versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
    Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
    Closes: #539324

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400

debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
    target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
    sequence addon interface. See #540124.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400

debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400

debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
    when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
    Closes: #539848
  * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
  * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
    maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400

debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
    It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400

debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200

debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
    Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
    --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
    and ant.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200

debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low

  * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200

debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
    versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
    created by using `python' first during build and install.
    Closes: #520834
    Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
    on them.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200

debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400

debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
  * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400

debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400

debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400

debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low

  * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
    contributed by Modestas Vainius
    - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
      directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
      than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
    - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
      directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
      that support it. Closes: #480577
    - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
      build system, or force use of a third-party class.
    - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
      systems.
    - Adds support for cmake.
    - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
      instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
      Closes: #534332
    - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
      large changes..
  * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
    that use them. The options are:
    --sourcedir, --destdir
    If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
    they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
  * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
    and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
    commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400

debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400

debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
    explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
    default. Closes: #537140

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400

debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
    is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
    from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400

debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
    GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400

debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
    from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400

debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
    a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
    Closes: #534565
  * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
    it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
    directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400

debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
    prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
  * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
    to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400

debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
    via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
    warning or deprecation message.
  * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
    maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
    via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
    dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
    the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
    END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
    some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
    Closes: #534639, #357434

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400

debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400

debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
    (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
  * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
    might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
    to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
    Closes: #530253
  * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
  * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
    from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400

debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400

debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
    Closes: #528235

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400

debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
    Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400

debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
    Closes: #528178
  * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
    to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
    Closes: #528235
  * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
    file support. Closes: #494914
    (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400

debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
  * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
    parameters. Closes: #527256
  * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
    in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
    the .packlist file. Closes: #527990

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400

debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
    (Patch from #459548)
  * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
  * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
    useful to disable the default python-support addon).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400

debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
    uses triggers. Closes: #523474
    (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
  * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400

debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
    binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
  * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
    Closes: #520615
  * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
  * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
    by triggers). Closes: #521181

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400

debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
    dh_python.
  * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400

debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
    to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
  * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
    Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
    omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
    change.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400

debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400

debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
    stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
    scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
  * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
    doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
  * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
    Closes: #326874
  * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
  * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
    of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
  * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
  * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
  * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500

debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
    syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
  * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
    cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
  * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
    - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
      conffile's name.
    - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500

debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500

debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low

  * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
  * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
  * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
  * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
  * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
  * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
    fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
  * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
    when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
  * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
    include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500

debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
  * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
    Closes: #504742
  * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
  * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
    such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
    to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
    options.
    (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
    warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500

debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low

  * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
    with ".txt". Closes: #498460
  * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
    complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
  * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
  * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
    by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long. 
    Closes: #370823
  * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
    that uses them. Affected options are:
    -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
    --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
    --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
    --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
    --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
    --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
    --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
  * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
    they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
  * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
    use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
    option. This will be converted back to an error later.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400

debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
    Closes: #517617

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500

debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500

debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
    to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
    use.
  * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
    for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
    (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
  * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
    eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
    than the old method.
  * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
    with dh anymore.
  * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
    which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
    rules (see bug #509756).
 
 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500

debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Per Olofsson ]
  * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
  * Typo. Closes: #493062
  * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
    if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400

debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
  * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
    empty files. Closes: #490937

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400

debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400

debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
    disable it.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400

debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
    being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
    source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
    debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
    packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
    Closes: #487938

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400

debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
    the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
    always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
  * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400

debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
  * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
  * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
    dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
    it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
  * Typo fix. Closes: #486464

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400

debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
    Closes: #484772

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400

debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
  * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
    daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
    its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
    while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
    in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
  * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
  * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
  * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
  * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400

debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
    can use to insert them into a command sequence. 
    (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
  * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
    So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
    cli-common.
  * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
    sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
    breaking backwards compatibility.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400

debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
    message in perl 5.10.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400

debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400

debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Convert copyright file to new format.
  * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400

debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
  * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400

debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
  * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
  * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
    run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
    daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
    dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
    only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
    logging by dh_listpackages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400

debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
    run and there are no packages of that type.
  * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
    packages to avoid interactive prompts.
  * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
  * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
    python packages.
  * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
    than just looking for some predefined common cases.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400

debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
  * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
    and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400

debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
    This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
    lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
    needed.
  * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
    Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
    options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
  * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
    running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
    planned but not yet implemented.)
  * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
    if the Makefile has such a target.
  * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
    or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
  * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
    setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
    MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
    but not yet implemented.)
  * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
    recommended default, especially when using dh.
  * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
    files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
    allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
    special parameters.
  * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
    therein.
  * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
  * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
    all the new toys.
  * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
    necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
  * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
    deprecated later).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400

debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
    also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
    extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400

debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
    pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
    filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400

debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400

debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400

debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
    just those installed by the program.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400

debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
    lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
    (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500

debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
    The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
    time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
  * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
    (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500

debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
    Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
  * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500

debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
  * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
  * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500

debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
    with policy. Closes: #461392
  * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
    which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
    only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
    symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
    implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500

debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
    Closes: #460340, #460351

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500

debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
  * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
    install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
    enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
  * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500

debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
  * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
    much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
  * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
    to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
    has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
    package build directory won't work.
  * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
    dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
    affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
  * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
  * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
    mode. Closes: #459426
  * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
    level.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500

debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
    the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500

debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
    Closes: #452337
  * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
    Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
  * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
    properly support includes. Closes: #452717
  * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
    isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500

debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
  * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
    Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
    Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
    http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500

debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
  * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
    about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
  * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
  * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
    call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400

debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
    debian/package.triggers files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400

debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
    a file with the same name. Closes: #445638

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400

debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
    tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
    files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
    good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
    get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
    maintainer.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400

debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
    debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400

debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
    files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
  * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
    Closes: #380314
  * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
    Closes: #442480

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400

debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
    Closes: #437337
  * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
  * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
  * Typo. Closes: #441272

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400

debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
    Closes: #432824

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400

debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
    Closes: #432321

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400

debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
    to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
    Closes: #329460
  * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
    existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
    updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
    plan.
  * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
    dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
  * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400

debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
    usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
  * Update urls to web page.
  * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
    file. (Thanks Wakko)
  * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code 
    rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400

debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
    - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
    - typo in alternatives call
    - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
    Closes: #420158
  * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
    fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400

debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
    that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
    Closes: #419849

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400

debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400

debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400

debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
    using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
    packages.
  * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
    new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
    that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
  * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
    will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
  * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
    the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
  * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
    w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
  * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
    third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400

debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
    package install. Closes: #415717
  * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
    preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
    dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
    script and then remove the python files.
  * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
  * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
    x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
    probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
    slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
    /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
  * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
    the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
    v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
    buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
  * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
  * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
    /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400

debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Correct typo in french translation

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Typo. Closes: #400571
  * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
    influencing it.
  * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
    too.
  * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
    Closes: #406921, #381940
  * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
    Closes: #404785
  * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
  * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
    away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
  * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
  * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
    can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
    specified). Closes: #381851
  * Misc minor changes.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500

debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
    dh_installinfo

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
    ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500

debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
  * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
    in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
    Closes: #395495
  * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
  * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
    information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
    on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500

debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400

debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400

debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
  
  [ Joey Hess]
  * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
    a difficult situation.
  * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
  * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
  * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
    The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
    everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
  * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
  * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
  * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
    lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
  * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400

debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Update of dh_python
    - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
      reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
      Closes: #375576
    - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
    - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
      were listed in XS-Python-Version.
    - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
    - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936

 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200

debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Update of dh_python
    - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
      between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
    - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
    - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
      dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
    - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
      instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
      specific python version. Closes: #373853
    - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
      maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
      provides.
    - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
      policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
      new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
      the not too-distant future).
      DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
      DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
  * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
    dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
    thus made the build fail.

 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200

debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833

 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200

debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
    package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
    running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
    depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
    The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
    package. Closes: #301424
  * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
    in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
    fonts). Closes: #372686

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400

debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
  * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
    the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
    like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
  * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
    above, but already depends on that.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400

debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
    language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
    codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
  * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
    old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
    update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400

debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400

debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
    an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400

debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
    before udev is installed. Closes: #363307

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400

debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
    dh_link and dh_compress manpages
  * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
    new version (0.24.1).
  * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
  * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
    they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
  * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
    /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
    accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
    new directory on their own.
  * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
  * Fix broken directory removal code.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400

debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
    really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
    builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
    the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
    other arch, and debhelper will now support this.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200

debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
    /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
    location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
  * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
  * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
  * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200

debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400

debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Typo. Closes: #358904
  * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
  * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
    Closes: #359020

  [ Valery Perrin ]
  * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
    dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500

debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high

  * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
     || exit 0   instead of the intended
     || exit $?
    due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
    ignored. Closes: #337664

    Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
    packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500

debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500

debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.

  [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
  * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
     the dh_installdebconf manpage
  * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
    a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
  * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
    source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500

debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
    version. Closes: #350607
  * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
    templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
    found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
    debconf-utils. Closes: #331796

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500

debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
    via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
  * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
  * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500

debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
    Closes: #349995

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500

debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Minor bug fix from last release.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500

debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
    language guessing. Closes: #193221

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500

debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
  * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
    "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
    prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
    as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
    via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
    was originally made.) Closes: #349070

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500

debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
    python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
    modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
    Closes: #347758

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500

debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
  * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500

debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
    --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500

debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
    set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
    Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
    and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
    it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
  * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
    reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500

debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * debhelper svn moved to alioth
  * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
  * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
    link. Closes: #346405
  * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /

  [ Josselin Mouette ]
  * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
    modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
    number of packages needing to transition together with python.
  * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
  * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
    defaults for a package without patching the schemas.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500

debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
    Closes: #345291

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500

debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * French translation update. Closes: #344133

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500

debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
    errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500

debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
    modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
    Closes: #339658

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500

debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
    Closes: #341289
  * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
    installed. Closes: #342033

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500

debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
    the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
  * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
    such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
    Closes: #338555

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500

debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500

debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500

debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
    script fragments.
  * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
    in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
    evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500

debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
  * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
    ok.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500

debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
    before releasing.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500

debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500

debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
    level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
    is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
    adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
    the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
  * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
    level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
    "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
  * Deprecate v3.
  * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500

debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
    translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
  * add.fr update. Closes: #335727

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400

debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
    in standard man dirs.
  * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400

debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400

debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
    Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
    Closes: #331237

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400

debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
    Closes: #329132

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400

debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
    Closes: #328791

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200

debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if 
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set. 
  * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400

debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * NMU with maintainer approval.
  * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script, 
    which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
    where it can be found. Closes: #327209

 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200

debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400

debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400

debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
    mode. Closes: #324161

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400

debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
    list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
    behavior change. Closes: #249815
  * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
    /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
    Closes: #319181

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400

debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
    and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
    before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
    is necesary for sanity.
  * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
    complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
    breakage.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400

debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high

  * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
    Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400

debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
  * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400

debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix typo in dh_strip.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400

debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
    still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is 
    released, so use at your own risk.
  * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
    that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
    Closes: #230588
  * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
    lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
  * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
  * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
  * Use v5 to build debhelper.
  * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
  * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
  * Add another test-case for dh_link.
  * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
    site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
  * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
    including twice per config file line now..
  * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
    and simplfy the rules file.
  * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
  * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
    Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
    debian currently.
  * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
    earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400

debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
  * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400

debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
    Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400

debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * The infinite number of monkeys release.
  * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400

debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
  * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
    update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
    generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
    should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
  * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
    (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400

debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
    in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
    substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
  * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
    dh_installdebconf.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500

debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
  * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
  * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
    Closes: #295383

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500

debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
    "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
  * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
  * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
    any more.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500

debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
  * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
    644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
  * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500

debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500

debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
    Closes: #284832

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500

debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
  * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
  * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
    unknown. Closes: #282924

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500

debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
    Closes: #283413

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500

debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish man page updates.
  * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
    Closes: #280676

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400

debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400

debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
  * dh_desktop: reindent
  * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
    with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400

debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400

debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH

  * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400

debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH

  * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300

debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
  * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
  * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300

debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400

debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400

debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
    (#258901)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400

debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
  * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400

debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
  * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
    schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
  * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
    are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
  * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
  * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
    killed.
  * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
    the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
    it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
  * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
    For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
  * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
    in the postinst. Closes: #253112
  * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
    for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
    etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
  * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
  * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
    in the others, and added a few new tests.
  * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
    relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
  * Warn if debian/compat is empty.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400

debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
    Closes: #209090

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400

debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
  * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300

debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
    This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400

debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
    sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400

debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
  * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400

debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500

debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500

debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500

debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
  * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
    to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
    passed in from the shell. See bug #234105

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500

debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
    etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500

debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
    but occasionally right and necessary.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500

debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
  * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
    - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
    - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
  * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
    Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500

debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
    "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
    details.
  * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
  * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
  * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
  * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
    dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
  * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
  * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
    or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
    postinst scripts for udebs.
  * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500

debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
    mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
    Closes: #231382
  * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include 
    "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500

debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500

debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
    Closes: #228272

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500

debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
    setting.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500

debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
  * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500

debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
  * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500

debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
  * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
    Closes: #225337
  * Copyright update.
  * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
    knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500

debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low

  * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500

debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
  * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500

debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
    Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
    intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
    for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
    Closes: #216099
  * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
    changelog.Debian.
  * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
    update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
  * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500

debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
  * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
    Closes: #218136

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500

debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
  * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
    debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
    dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
    Closes: #218718

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500

debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500

debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400

debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
    support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
    dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
  * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
    -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
    associated -dbg packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400

debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
  * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400

debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low

  * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
  * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400

debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
    advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400

debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low

  * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
  * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
    Closes: #208753

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400

debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo. Closes: #207999
  * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400

debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low

  * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
    Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
    Closes: #199261

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400

debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
  * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400

debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
    Closes: #112950
  * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
    files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
  * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
    dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
    the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
    dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
    etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
    (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
  * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
  * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400

debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
  * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
    Closes: #206689

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400

debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
    is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
  * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400

debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
  * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
    shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
    .py[co] found.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400

debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
    use. Patch from Josselin, of course.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400

debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
  * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400

debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
    out section number. Closes: #204731

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400

debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
    Closes: #204559

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400

debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400

debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400

debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #203907
  * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
    removal. Closes: #204286

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400

debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
    renaming. Closes: #203548

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400

debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
  * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
  * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400

debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400

debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200

debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200

debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
    case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
  * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
    deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400

debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
    packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
    packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400

debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400

debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
    in the TH line.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400

debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
  * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
    scan.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400

debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
    It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400

debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
  * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
    added by me.)
  * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
  * Add aph's name to copyright file too.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400

debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
  * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
    Closes: #194531

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400

debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
    python in stable, version 2.1.3+.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400

debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400

debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400

debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
    it break hard links (see #188663).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400

debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
  * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400

debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500

debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
    Closes: #184411
  * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
    debconf-mergetemplates

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800

debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
    pod2man. Closes: #184013

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500

debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
  * Typo, Closes: #183267

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500

debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
  * Update debhelper(1).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500

debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
    stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
    prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
  * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
    usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
  * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500

debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
  * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
    the shell. Closes: #178524
  * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500

debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
    Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500

debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
    undocumented.7 links anymore.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500

debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
  * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
  * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
    indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
    used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
    Untested.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500

debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
    files from installation.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500

debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
  * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
    for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500

debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
    params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500

debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette 
    <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500

debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500

debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500

debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
    Closes: #169138
  * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
    (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
    Closes: #168751
  * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500

debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
  * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
    --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
    people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
    other sane meaning. Closes: #168751

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500

debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
  * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500

debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
    confmodule. (Cf #106070)
  * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500

debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
    See #164863
  * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
    omitted.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400

debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400

debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
    Closes: #163569
  * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
  * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
    man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
    Closes: #163534

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400

debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
    and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
    practice. Closes: #163303

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400

debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400

debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
    Closes: #163128

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400

debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * The "reverse hangover" release.
  * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
    Closes: #162493
  * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
  * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
    without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
    if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
  * Various improvements to debhelper(1).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400

debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
    will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
    XS in them.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400

debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400

debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
    Closes: #159155

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400

debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
    if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
    needed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400

debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400

debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400

debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400

debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
    Closes: #156243

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400

debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
    --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
    with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
    not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
    easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
    right.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400

debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #155323

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400

debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
    shlibs.local.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400

debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
    Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
  * Removed dh_installxaw.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400

debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
    NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
    these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
    only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
    news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
    abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400

debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
    dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
    Closes: #152117
  * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
    useful.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400

debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
    This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400

debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
  * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
    right thing. Closes: #150644

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400

debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Stupid, evil typo.
  * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400

debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
    Closes: #150403

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400

debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
  * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
    than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
    some cases.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400

debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400

debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
    /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400

debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
    paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
    will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
    Closes: #148172

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400

debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
  * Documented what globbing is allowed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400

debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400

debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
    name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
    sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400

debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400

debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removing perl warning message.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400

debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
    from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb 
    will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
  * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
    --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
    debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
  * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
  * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
    Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400

debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400

debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
    Closes: #143234

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400

debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
    debconf-mergetemplate.
  * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
  * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400

debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
    from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
    it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
    dh_install, which ...
    - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
    - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
      mess, as it uses debian/install.
    - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
    - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
    - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
      all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
    - supports -X. Closes: #116902
    - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
      bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
    - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
      designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
  * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
  * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
    other minor changes.
  * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
    bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
  * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
  * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
    course there's -X ..)    
  * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
    and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
  * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
    me before..
  * use v4 for building debhelper itself
  * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
    (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
    many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
    for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
    using.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400

debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400

debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #139176
  * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500

debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500

debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500

debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500

debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500

debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
    I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
    now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
    which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
    anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
    Closes: #40649
  * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
  * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500

debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500

debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #132454
  * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500

debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
    upset. Closes: #131322

 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>  Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500

debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
    what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
    advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
    line, as well as in debian/rules.
  * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
    This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
    earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
    things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
  * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
    ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
    on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
    that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
    should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
    on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
    Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
    <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
    Closes: #76352
  * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500

debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
    - Better indenting of generated code.
    - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500

debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
  * dh_installxfonts:
    - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
    - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
      postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
    - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
    - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
      update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
    - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500

debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
  * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500

debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
    is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
    compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
    mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
    omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
    change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
    compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
    deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
    reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
  * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
    is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
  * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
    distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
    by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
  * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
    (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
    dh-make.)
    
 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500

debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500

debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
    characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
  * fixed dh_testdir man page

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500

debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #122679
  * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
  * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500

debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500

debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
  * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
  * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
    this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
    a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
  * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control, 
    Closes: #118805

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500

debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * More informative error, Closes: #118767

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500

debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
    and modified docs (Closes: #115733).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400

debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
    properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
    filenames.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400

debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #114135

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400

debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
    the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400

debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400

debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
    Closes: #92826
    Also some indentation fixes. 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400

debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
  * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
    we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
  * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files 
    specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file. 
    Closes: #106514, #85520

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400

debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #104405

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400

debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400

debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low

  * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400

debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400

debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400

debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
    change it in debhelper v4..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400

debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400

debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
    which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400

debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
    is not essential. Closes: #100430

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400

debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400

debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
    data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
    (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
    data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
    with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
  * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
    debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
    internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
    that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
    be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
    a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
    (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
    prefixed with ".debhelper")

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400

debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
    look just like shared libs, but are not.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400

debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
    Closes: #99169

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400

debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
    and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
    the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
    of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
    support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
    of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
    program those options go to. So, for example, 
    dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
    would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
    something complex. Closes: #89311
  * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
 
 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400

debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames 
    and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
    purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
    undocumented interface. Closes: #95387

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400

debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
    through loop. Closes: #98598

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400

debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * Missing semi-colon.
  * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
    this (dh_* should be called, really).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400

debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
    already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings 
    breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400

debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
  * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
    bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400

debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
    corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400

debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
    any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
    (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400

debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
    The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
    were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
    whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400

debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl: updates from bod:
    - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
      (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
    - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700

debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
    make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700

debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700

debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #92407

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700

debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800

debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800

debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
    to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800

debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
    for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
    liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
    contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
    followed. Closes: #85483

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800

debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
    Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
    packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500

debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
    I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
    the hurd work. Closes: #88494
  * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
  * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
    and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
    it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
    it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
    up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
    the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
    change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
    Closes: #88464, #77743
  * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
    the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
    us to deal with that gracefully.
  * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
    #88426
  * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
  * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
    a while, Closes: #51225

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800

debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl update

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800

debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like 
    a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800

debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
    quite a bad bug).
  * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
    should work now.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800

debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
    policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
    don't make packlist files.
  * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
    debhelper coding standards.
  * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
  * Version number increase to meet perl policy.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800

debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
  * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800

debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
    It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where 
    based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
    begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
    evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
    Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
  * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
    but is mildly deprecated.
  * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
  * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
    using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
    Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
    if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
    switching to statoverrides..
  * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
    latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
    thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
  * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
    dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
    has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
    instead.
  * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
    directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
    `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
    is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
    a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
    Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
    dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
  * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
  * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
    files.
  * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
    variable names, pod man pages).
  * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
    debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
    version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
    planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
  * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
    number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
    touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800

debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800

debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
    Closes: #84974

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800

debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
    <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800

debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
    I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
    since one debconf command needs the package to work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800

debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
    they were previously ignored.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800

debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
    dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800

debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
    debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
    sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800

debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800

debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
  * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800

debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
    packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
    the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
    to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
    conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
  * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
    If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
    page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
    If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
    it is an obsolete program.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800

debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800

debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560

 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>  Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800

debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242

 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800

debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm, 
    Closes: #80209
  * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800

debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spelling patch.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800

debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * typo: Closes, #78567

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800

debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800

debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800

debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
    - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
      begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
      course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain 
      files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
      to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800

debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
    data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
    Closes: #78139

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800

debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
    after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
    itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
    minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
    backwards-compatibility.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800

debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
    turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
    - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
      Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you 
      use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
      old rules files have the ordering backwards.
    - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
      conffiles.
    - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
      debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
      non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
      Closes: #34628
  * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
    caution..
  * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
    a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
    and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
    should now be raised to severity important..
  * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
    deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800

debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
    packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
    Closes: #77604

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800

debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #77441

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800

debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * Completed the fix from the last version.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800

debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800

debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
    is broken upstream.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800

debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
    but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
    rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
    major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
    version of such libraries, so -m must be used.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800

debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800

debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
    this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
    dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
  * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
    from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
    make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
  * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
    much better way.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800

debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
    been unregistered then, and a warning will result.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800

debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800

debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
    This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
    installer.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700

debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
    debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
    there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
    have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
    think this Closes: #17111, #51985

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700

debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir. 
    Closes: #75434
  * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
    in:
    .
    debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
    .
      * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
      * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
        $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
        Closes: #53381
    .
    -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
    .
    I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
    the TODO entry about it.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700

debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
    Closes: #75283

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700

debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
    shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
    prevent that. Closes: #73052

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700

debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Typo, Closes: #72932
  * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
    shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
    "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
    that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700

debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700

debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
    are CVS files..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700

debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
    (this appears to be logal).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700

debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
    does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
    handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
    proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
    kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700

debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700

debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
    debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
  * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
    debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
    debian/filename from all over the man pages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700

debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700

debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
    silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700

debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
    versions.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700

debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
    showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
  * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
    rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
    of the hack.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700

debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
    4.0.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700

debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700

debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
    changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
    development stalled after only the most important change was made,
    although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
    In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
    warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
    notice until v2 is complete.
  * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
    changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
    by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
    debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
    debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
    very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
    switch to v2.
  * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
  * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
  * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
  * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700

debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low

  * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700

debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
    standard..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700

debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low

  * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
    are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700

debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low

  * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
    the source package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700

debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low

  * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
    "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
    of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
    error unwinds. Closes: #66673
  * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
    Closes: #66670

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700

debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
    exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
  * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
    is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
    Closes: #66278

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700

debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
    files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
    debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700

debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
    just skip files that end in -\d+.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700

debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
    has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700

debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixes for perl 5.6.
  * Spelling fixes.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700

debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
    depend on the build and install targets.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700

debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
    configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700

debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low

  * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message. 
    Closes: #62058

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700

debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800

debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800

debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
    modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
    update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
  * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
  * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
    the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
    dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
    start using it.
  * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
    debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
    specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
    on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
    problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
    sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
  * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800

debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low

  * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800

debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low

  * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800

debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
    right place. Closes: #55065

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800

debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low

  * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks. 
    Closes: #54620

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800

debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make all examples rules files executable.
  * Copyright date updates.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800

debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
    --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
    in slink.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800

debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800

debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths, 
    Closes: #53029

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800

debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low

  * Type fix, Closes: #52652

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800

debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800

debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800

debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
    hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
    files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
    link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
    of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
    leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
    bits until all files have been registered. 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800

debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages:
    - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
      <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268 
    - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch. 
    - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it. 
  * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
    - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
      useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100 
    - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
      easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
      otherwise change the result at all. 
  * doc/TODO:
     - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
      exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
      against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
      dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now.. 
  * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
    Fear makechangelog.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800

debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800

debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
    act on files that don't exist.
  * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
    html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
    text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx. 
    (Closes: #51099)
  * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
    U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
    dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
    fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800

debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low

  * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800

debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800

debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low

  * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
    dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800

debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
    perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
    in base.
  * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
  * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
    you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800

debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
    should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
    packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
  * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
    image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
    does not compress. Closes: #41733
  * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
    insensitively.
  * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
    Closes: #46039
  * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800

debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
    Closes: #48931

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800

debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700

debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700

debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
    any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700

debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700

debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700

debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
    Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
  * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
    <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
    I made some changes, though:
    - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
    - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
      that is a clear violation of policy.
    - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
      this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
    - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
      dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
      us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
    - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
    - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
      font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
    - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
      as I can.
    - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700

debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700

debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
    644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700

debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
    leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
    and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package. 
    (Closes: #46183)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700

debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700

debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
    not idempotent.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700

debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
    you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
    run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
    though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
  * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
    Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
    target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
    maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700

debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700

debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
    purge.
  * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
    seems conceptually a little cleaner.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700

debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * Minor changes to rules.multi2.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700

debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
    don't do anything, rather than crashing.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700

debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
    install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
  * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700

debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
    last version.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700

debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
    dpkg-shlibdeps.
  * dh_installdeb: debconf support.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700

debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
  * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
    for the dependancies to be generated.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700

debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
    page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700

debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
    existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
    a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
    shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
    is.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700

debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
  * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
    files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700

debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700

debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700

debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
    contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700

debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700

debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
    For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
    dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
  * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
  * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
    http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
    to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
    /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
    /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
    the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
  * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
    use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
    modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700

debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
    a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
    DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
    anymore.
  * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
  * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
  * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
    works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
    building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
    targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
    commands.
  * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
    years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700

debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
    Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700

debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back. 
    Closes: #43652

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700

debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
    my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
    debhelper is built.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700

debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
    for building debhelper.
  * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700

debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name. 
    Closes: #43148.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700

debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed makefile commit target.
  * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700

debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
  * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
  * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
  * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
    Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
    missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
    it's always available.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700

debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
    files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
    Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
    of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700

debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
    specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
    modules. (Closes: #42171)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700

debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700

debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
    misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700

debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700

debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
    not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
    say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
    ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700

debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
    shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
    (Closes: #41689)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700

debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
    (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
    update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
    #41174)
  * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
    multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700

debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700

debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700

debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
    info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700

debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
  * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz, 
    because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
    at that name.
  * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700

debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
    there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
    decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
    various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700

debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
    things if CDPATH is set.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700

debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700

debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
    seems to make sense for the transition.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700

debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
    using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
    cleaned up.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700

debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low

  * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
    -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
    package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700

debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
    that version. (Closes: #40589)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700

debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low

  * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call 
    "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
  * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
    supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
    there will be a debhelper v3 some day...

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700

debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low

  * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700

debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
    barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
  * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
    build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
    dh_movefiles still uses it.)
  * debhelper.1: documented this. 
  * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
    current compatibility level is equal to that number.
  * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
  * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
  * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
    debstd after all.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700

debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low

  * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
  * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
  * README: mention doc/v2
  * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
  * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700

debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
    be using this script RSN.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700

debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
    to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
    This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
    more than 1 init script.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700

debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
    failing if it was given absolute filenames.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700

debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low

  * Changed perl version detection.
  * Changed call to find.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700

debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
    finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
    .packlist files.
  * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
    perl comes out.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700

debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low

  * Really include dh_installpam.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700

debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
  * Wrote man page for same.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700

debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
    the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
    happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
    (Closes: #38911)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700

debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
    (closes: #39082)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700

debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
    This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
    already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
  * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
    x bit was being set!

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700

debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
    necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
    well. (Closes: 38900)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700

debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
    debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
    work on the man page (closes: #38898).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700

debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700

debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
    (#38263).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700

debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low

  * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700

debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low

  * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
    help from Julian Gilbey.
  * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
    generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
  * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
    only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
  * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
    5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
  * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
    (#37655).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700

debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700

debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
    (#37346)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700

debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added to docs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700

debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700

debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
    actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now. 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700

debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
    and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700

debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
    somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700

debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700

debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
    to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700

debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700

debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700

debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
    exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
    may be deleted. (#35845)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700

debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * Various man page enhancements.
  * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
    md5sums (#35819).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700

debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
  * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when 
    debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700

debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
    compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
    Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
    range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
    "-gz".
  * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
    suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
    file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700

debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800

debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * Another very minor typo fix.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800

debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * Very minor typo fix.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800

debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
    even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
    modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800

debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800

debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low

  * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
    fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
    variables properly (#34850).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800

debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low

  * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800

debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
  * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
    (automatically generated by build process).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800

debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800

debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
  * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
    spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
    (Closes: #33860)
  * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800

debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
    files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800

debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low

  * README: minor typo fix.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800

debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low

  * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
    leave it at that. :-)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800

debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800

debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800

debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
  * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin 
    <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
  * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800

debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
  * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800

debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the 
    beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800

debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
    tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
  * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
    will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
  * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800

debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
  * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
    dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
    Craig Small for spotting this.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800

debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
    the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
    probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800

debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800

debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
    from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800

debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high

  * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
    These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
    working on the last version of debhelper.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800

debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
    being made. (#23255)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800

debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800

debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
    postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800

debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
    still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
    legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
    postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
    built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800

debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
    they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
    changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
    was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
    Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
    bits explicitly.
  * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
    did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
    Now it does.
  * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
    cleared.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800

debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800

debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800

debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
    exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
    you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
    sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
  * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
  * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
    suidregister actually supports it.
  * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
    binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500

debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
    faster now.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500

debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
    debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
    debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
    of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
    because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
  * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
    When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
    re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500

debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
    this has been broken since version 1.2.3.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800

debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
    it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
    filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
  * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of 
    some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800

debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
    changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
    BTW).
  * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
  * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
    I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
    in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
    dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
    effect, either. (#30118)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800

debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800

debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
    dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
    also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800

debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Spelling and typo fixes.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800

debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
    (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
    that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
  * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
    suidregister maintainer (#29802).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800

debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
    *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
  * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800

debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800

debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
    packages, painlessly.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800

debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Suggest dh-make (#29376).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800

debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800

debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800

debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * The perl conversion is complete.
  .
  * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk 
    garbage!)
  * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
  * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
  * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
    interface.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800

debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
  * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
  * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
  * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800

debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
  * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
    indirectly..).
  * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
    permissions.
  * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
  * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800

debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
  * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
    man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800

debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800

debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
    perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
  * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
    circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
  * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800

debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
    reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
    ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
    will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
    permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800

debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
    files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700

debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
  * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
    (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
    registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
    postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
    window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
    xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
    your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
    is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700

debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700

debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
    a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
    multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
  * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
    install (#26680).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700

debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
    line to skip, for backwards compatibility. 

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700

debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
    up postinst and prerm (#26560).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700

debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
    sections of shared libraries.
  * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
    as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
    useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
    debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
    use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
    things you don't want them to.
  * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
    present. It didn't before, which was a bug.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700

debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as 
    shared libraries. (#26414)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700

debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of 
    installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
  * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
    debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700

debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/

  * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
    debhelpers.
  * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
    a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
    unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
    will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
    the program to not fail. (#26214)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700

debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
    symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700

debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
    debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
    wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
    packages. Fixed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700

debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
    to the original name of the upstream changelog.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700

debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low

  * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
    debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
    to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
    intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
    need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
    I apologize for the inconvenience.

  * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
    remove debian/files properly.
  * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
  * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
    doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
  * Removed bogus menu file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700

debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
    since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700

debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
    escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
  * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
  * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
    --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
    really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700

debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
  * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
    characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
    <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700

debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
    this time..)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700

debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
  * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
  * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
    prefer.
  * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
    metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
    characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
  * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
    nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700

debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
    cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
  * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
  * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
  * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
    dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
  * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
    (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem 
    applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
    the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
  * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
    passed any switches.
  * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700

debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
  * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
    at all for a long while.
  * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
  * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
    large chunks in the process.
  * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
    install many oddly named files it died on before.
  * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
    debian packages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700

debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
  * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
    (#21401).
  * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
    to perl programs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700

debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
    some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
    that don't always have the same files in them.
  * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
    additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
  * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700

debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low

  * New unstable branch of debhelper.
  
  * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
  * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
    are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
    updating 27 man pages.
  * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
    appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
  * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
  * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the 
    programs act on. (#25247)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700

debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low

  * 1.0 at last!
  
  * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
    stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
    people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
    critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
    to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
    bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
    into unstable only.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700

debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
    (#25514)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700

debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
    version.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700

debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
    rarely does this make sense. (#25197)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700

debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700

debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low

  * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
    !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
  * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
  * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
    package by accident.
  * Is version 1.0 next?

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700

debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
    odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
  * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700

debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low

  * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
  * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now 
    install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
  * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages 
    with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
    Herbert!
  * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
    fix work.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700

debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
  * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
  * some minor reorganization of the source tree.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700

debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
    I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700

debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in 
    filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
  * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
    before.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700

debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700

debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
    and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
    a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
    -isp to be used.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700

debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700

debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low

  * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
    providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
    get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
    past week. Thanks, guys!
  .
  * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
    It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
    be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
    converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
    output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
    would do in the same situation.
  * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
    that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release 
    debhelper 1.0!
  * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
    to debhelper.
  * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
    permissions changed.
  * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
    some people enjoy changing root's name.
  * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files, 
    for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
    files are treated identically.
  * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
  * Minor man page fixes.
  * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
  * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
    --no-act is on. (#23054)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400

debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low

  * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
  * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
  * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
    exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
    use -X multiple times, too.
  * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
    --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700

debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
    elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
    broken in debhelper before! (#22395)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700

debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
    messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700

debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
    - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
    - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
  * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
    going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
    version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
  * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
    shape if you're starting a new package.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700

debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
    an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700

debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low

  * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
    properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
    because of missing symlinks.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800

debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800

debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
  * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
    Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath 
    <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
  * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
    rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
    changelogs.
  * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
  * Above 2 changes close #20442.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800

debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
    fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
    to be changed after the fact :-)
  * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800

debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
    no version string after the -V.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800

debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low

  * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
    This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
    fixes.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800

debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low

  * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
  * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800

debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
  * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
    installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
  * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
  * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
    Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
    I always welcome corrections!

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800

debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800

debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low

  * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
    --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
  * Documented this new switch.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800

debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
    dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
  * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
    do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
    no packages use the old behavior.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800

debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
    comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
    gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800

debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low

  * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
  * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800

debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low

  * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800

debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
    aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800

debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low

  * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
  * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
    moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
    If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800

debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800

debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
    into the source package by accident.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800

debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low

  * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
  * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
    debian-policy that du control files are bad.
  * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
  * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
  * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files 
    with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual 
    values. (#18283)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800

debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
    /usr/X11R6/man/.
  * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
    inspired to implement some of it.
  *  Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800

debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
    debian/icewm.1 can be found.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800

debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
    (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
    Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800

debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
    actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
    have done.) (#17598)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun,  1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800

debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500

debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low

  * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500

debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
    to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500

debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
  * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
    to some of the sample rules files. #17076

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500

debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
    argument processor in perl.
  * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
  * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
    dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
  * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500

debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
    type directories. (#16933)
  * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
    use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
  * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
    preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
    are supported. (#16935)
  * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
    (#16932)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500

debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
    This has been broken since version 0.30.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue,  6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500

debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
    policy. (#16644)
  * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
    version requirements in the shlibs file.
  * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
    Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
    command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
  * Updated Standards-Version to latest.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon,  5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500

debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
    of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
  * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
    debhelper to build.
  * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
    behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
    line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
    first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
    a given package, or -i or -a.
  * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
    "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
  * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
    and debhelper's behavior has altered.
  * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
    is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
  * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
    away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
  * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
    perl script.
  * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
    led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
    not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500

debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
  * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
    slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
    2 dh_* programs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500

debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
    does not have a section.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500

debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
    makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
    I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
  * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500

debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed typo #16215.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500

debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
    Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
  * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
    to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
  * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
  * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
    for safety.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500

debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low

  * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
    and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
  * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
  * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
    section.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500

debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed man page typos #15685.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat,  6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500

debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500

debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
    #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
  * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
    that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
    `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
  * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean, 
    dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500

debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed,  3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500

debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low

  * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
  * Ran ispell on all the documentation.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500

debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
  * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
    the dh_* programs (#15497).
  * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500

debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
  * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500

debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500

debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low

  * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
    of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500

debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
    README.Debian is installed with the same name..)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500

debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500

debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
    postinst, postrm, etc.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500

debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500

debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
  * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej, 
    .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
  * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
    them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
    commands once, and then run them seperatly.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500

debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
    compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
  * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri,  7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500

debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no 
    matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500

debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low

  * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for 
    installing package files into.
  * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
    specified.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu,  6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500

debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
    unchanged.
  * Install examples/rules* executable.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500

debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400

debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
    (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400

debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low

  * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
    (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
  * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
  * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
  * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400

debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium

  * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
    files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
  * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
    multiple binary packages.
  * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
    should rebuild them with this version.
  * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400

debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
  * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400

debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
  * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400

debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
  * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
    named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
    package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
    it is installed as TODO.Debian.
  * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
    debian/README.debian.
  * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
  * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
    files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
    permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
    in a few situations.)

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400

debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400

debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400

debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
  * Fixed several man pages.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400

debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
    dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
  * Removed some pointless uses of cat.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400

debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
    is ready for general use.
  * Added man pages for all commands.
  * Multiple binary package support.
  * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
    by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
  * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
    parameters.
  * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
  * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be 
    auto-installed as parameters.
  * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
    and permissions.
  * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
    files.
  * Added a README.
  * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
    the package build directory it is to act on.
  * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
    package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
  * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400

debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low

  * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
    ready to replace debstd.

 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400