1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
5 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
6 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
7 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
8 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
9 the targets. Closes: #629139
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
14 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
20 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
23 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
24 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
28 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
31 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
32 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
33 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
34 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
35 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
36 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
37 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
42 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
46 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
47 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
49 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
50 changes may be added to that mode.
51 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
52 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
53 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
54 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
55 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
56 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
57 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
58 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
59 * Removed old example rules files.
60 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
64 * update french translation.
65 * Fix french misspelling.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
69 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
72 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
76 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
79 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
81 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
82 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
83 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
84 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
85 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
89 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
92 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
93 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
94 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
95 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
96 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
97 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
99 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
100 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
101 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
102 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
103 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
104 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
105 (Thanks, David Prévot)
106 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
107 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
108 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
109 target fails. Closes: #601037
110 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
112 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
113 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
114 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
115 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
116 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
118 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
119 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
121 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
122 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
123 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
125 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
127 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
130 * update french translation.
131 * Fix french misspelling.
132 * French translation update after massive man page typography
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
136 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
142 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
146 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
148 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
152 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
154 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
155 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
156 introduced by the fix to #527990.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
160 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
163 changes are planned for that mode.
164 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
165 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
166 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
167 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
168 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
169 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
170 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
171 (genesis) still uses them.
172 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
173 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
174 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
175 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
176 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
177 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
178 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
179 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
180 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
181 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
182 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
183 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
184 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
185 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
186 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
187 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
188 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
189 commands. (See #570039)
190 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
192 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
197 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
201 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
202 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
203 in control file or debhelper config files.
204 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
208 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
211 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
212 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
216 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
219 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
223 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
226 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
227 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
231 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Updated French translation.
234 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
235 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
236 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
237 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
239 * Typo. Closes: #571968
240 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
241 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
242 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
243 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
244 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
245 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
246 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
247 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
248 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
250 * dh: Improve documentation.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
254 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
256 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
257 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
258 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
262 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
265 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
269 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
272 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
276 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
279 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
280 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
281 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
282 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
283 options that they do not support.
284 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
285 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
286 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
287 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
288 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
289 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
294 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
298 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
299 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
300 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
301 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
302 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
303 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
304 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
305 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
306 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
310 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
313 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
314 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
315 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
316 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
320 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Typo. Closes: #558654
323 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
324 installed. Closes: #558782
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
328 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
331 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
332 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
333 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
334 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
335 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
339 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
341 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
342 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
343 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
344 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
348 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
351 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
352 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
356 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
358 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
362 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
364 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
365 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
366 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
367 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
368 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
369 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
370 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
371 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
372 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
373 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
374 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
375 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
376 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
377 time soon.) Closes: #554509
378 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
380 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
381 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
382 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
383 document id. Closes: #555677
384 * Typo. Closes: #555659
385 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
386 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
387 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
388 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
390 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
391 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
392 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
397 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
400 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
401 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
402 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
403 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
404 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
405 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
406 translation (#494300 part 2)
409 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
411 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
412 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
413 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
414 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
415 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
419 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
422 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
423 (It was only run once due to logging.)
424 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
425 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
426 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
427 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
428 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
429 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
430 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
431 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
432 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
433 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
437 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
441 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
444 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
445 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
449 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
452 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
453 flag with arch all/any packages.
454 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
455 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
456 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
457 situation. Closes: #540794
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
461 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
465 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
466 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
467 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
468 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
469 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
472 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
473 the default. Closes: #538201
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
478 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
482 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
483 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
484 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
485 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
486 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
488 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
489 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
490 * Above Closes: #491117
491 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
496 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
502 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
503 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
504 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
508 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
511 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
512 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
513 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
514 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
515 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
520 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
523 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
524 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
528 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
530 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
534 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
536 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
537 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
539 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
540 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
541 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
545 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
547 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
548 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
552 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
558 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
560 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
561 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
562 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
567 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
569 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
573 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
576 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
577 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
578 created by using `python' first during build and install.
580 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
585 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
587 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
591 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
593 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
594 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
598 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
600 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
604 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
606 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
610 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
612 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
613 contributed by Modestas Vainius
614 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
615 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
616 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
617 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
618 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
619 that support it. Closes: #480577
620 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
621 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
622 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
624 - Adds support for cmake.
625 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
626 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
628 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
630 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
631 that use them. The options are:
632 --sourcedir, --destdir
633 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
634 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
635 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
636 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
637 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
647 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
650 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
651 default. Closes: #537140
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
655 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
658 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
659 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
663 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
666 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
670 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
673 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
677 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
680 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
682 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
683 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
684 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
688 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
691 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
692 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
693 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
697 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
700 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
701 warning or deprecation message.
702 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
703 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
704 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
705 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
706 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
707 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
708 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
709 Closes: #534639, #357434
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
713 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
719 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
722 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
723 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
724 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
725 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
727 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
728 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
729 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
733 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
739 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
746 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
749 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
753 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
757 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
758 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
760 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
761 file support. Closes: #494914
762 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
766 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
769 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
770 parameters. Closes: #527256
771 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
772 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
773 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
777 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
781 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
782 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
783 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
787 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
790 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
791 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
792 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
796 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
799 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
800 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
802 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
803 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
804 by triggers). Closes: #521181
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
808 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
812 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
816 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
819 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
820 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
821 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
822 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
827 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
833 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
836 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
837 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
838 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
839 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
840 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
842 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
843 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
844 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
845 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
846 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
847 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
851 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
854 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
855 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
856 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
857 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
858 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
860 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
864 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
866 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
870 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
872 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
873 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
874 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
875 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
876 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
877 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
878 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
879 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
880 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
881 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
882 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
886 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
888 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
889 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
891 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
892 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
893 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
894 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
896 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
897 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
901 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
903 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
904 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
905 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
906 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
907 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
908 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
909 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
911 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
912 that uses them. Affected options are:
913 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
914 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
915 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
916 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
917 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
918 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
919 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
920 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
921 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
922 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
923 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
924 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
928 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
935 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
941 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
943 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
944 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
946 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
947 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
948 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
949 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
950 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
952 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
954 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
955 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
956 rules (see bug #509756).
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
960 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
966 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
967 * Typo. Closes: #493062
968 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
969 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
973 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
976 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
977 empty files. Closes: #490937
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
987 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
994 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
997 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
998 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
999 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1000 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1005 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1007 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1008 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1009 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1010 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1014 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1017 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1018 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1019 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1020 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1021 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1032 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1035 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1036 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1037 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1038 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1039 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1040 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1041 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1042 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1043 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1050 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1051 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1052 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1053 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1055 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1056 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1057 breaking backwards compatibility.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1061 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1064 message in perl 5.10.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1074 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1077 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1081 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1084 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1088 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1091 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1092 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1093 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1094 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1095 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1096 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1097 logging by dh_listpackages.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1101 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1104 run and there are no packages of that type.
1105 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1106 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1107 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1108 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1110 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1111 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1115 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1118 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1119 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1123 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1126 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1127 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1129 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1130 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1131 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1132 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1133 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1134 planned but not yet implemented.)
1135 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1136 if the Makefile has such a target.
1137 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1138 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1139 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1140 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1141 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1142 but not yet implemented.)
1143 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1144 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1145 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1146 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1147 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1149 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1151 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1152 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1154 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1155 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1156 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1161 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1164 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1165 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1169 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1171 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1172 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1173 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1177 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1183 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1189 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1192 just those installed by the program.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1196 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1199 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1200 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1204 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1207 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1208 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1209 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1210 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1214 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1217 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1218 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1222 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1225 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1226 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1230 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1233 with policy. Closes: #461392
1234 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1235 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1236 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1237 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1238 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1242 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1245 Closes: #460340, #460351
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1249 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1252 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1253 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1254 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1255 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1259 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1262 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1263 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1264 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1265 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1266 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1267 package build directory won't work.
1268 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1269 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1270 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1271 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1272 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1273 mode. Closes: #459426
1274 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1279 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1282 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1286 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1290 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1291 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1292 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1293 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1294 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1295 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1299 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1302 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1303 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1304 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1305 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1309 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1312 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1313 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1314 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1315 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1316 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1320 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1323 debian/package.triggers files.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1327 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1330 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1334 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1337 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1338 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1339 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1340 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1345 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1348 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1355 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1356 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1358 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1363 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1367 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1368 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1369 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1373 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1380 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1387 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1390 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1392 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1393 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1394 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1396 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1397 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1398 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1402 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1405 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1406 * Update urls to web page.
1407 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1408 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1409 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1410 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1414 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1417 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1418 - typo in alternatives call
1419 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1421 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1422 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1426 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1429 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1434 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1440 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1446 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1449 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1451 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1452 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1453 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1454 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1455 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1456 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1457 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1458 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1459 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1460 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1461 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1465 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1468 package install. Closes: #415717
1469 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1470 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1471 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1472 script and then remove the python files.
1473 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1474 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1475 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1476 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1477 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1478 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1479 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1480 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1481 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1482 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1483 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1484 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1485 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Correct typo in french translation
1495 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1496 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1498 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1500 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1501 Closes: #406921, #381940
1502 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1504 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1505 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1506 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1507 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1508 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1509 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1510 specified). Closes: #381851
1511 * Misc minor changes.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1515 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1522 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1523 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1527 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1533 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1534 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1537 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1538 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1540 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1541 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1542 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1543 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1547 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1550 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1553 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1557 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1563 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1569 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1570 a difficult situation.
1571 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1572 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1573 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1574 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1575 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1576 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1577 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1578 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1579 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1580 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1584 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Non-maintainer upload.
1587 * Update of dh_python
1588 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1589 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1591 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1592 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1593 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1594 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1595 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1597 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1599 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Non-maintainer upload.
1602 * Update of dh_python
1603 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1604 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1605 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1606 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1607 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1608 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1609 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1610 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1611 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1612 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1614 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1615 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1616 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1617 the not too-distant future).
1618 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1619 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1620 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1621 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1622 thus made the build fail.
1624 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1626 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Non-maintainer upload.
1629 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1631 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1633 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1636 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1637 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1638 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1639 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1640 package. Closes: #301424
1641 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1642 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1643 fonts). Closes: #372686
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1647 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1653 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1654 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1655 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1656 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1657 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1658 above, but already depends on that.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1662 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1665 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1666 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1667 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1668 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1669 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1673 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1679 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1685 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1686 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1690 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1693 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1697 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1701 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1702 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1703 new version (0.24.1).
1704 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1705 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1708 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1709 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1710 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1711 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1712 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1713 new directory on their own.
1714 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1715 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1719 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1722 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1723 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1724 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1725 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1729 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1732 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1733 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1734 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1735 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1736 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1740 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1746 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1750 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1751 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1755 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1756 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1762 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1763 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1765 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1766 ignored. Closes: #337664
1768 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1773 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1779 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1784 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1785 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1786 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1787 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1788 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1789 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1790 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1794 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1797 version. Closes: #350607
1798 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1799 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1800 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1801 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1805 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1808 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1809 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1810 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1814 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1827 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1830 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1834 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1837 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1838 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1839 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1840 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1841 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1842 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1846 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1849 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1850 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1855 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1858 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1862 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1865 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1872 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1873 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1874 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1875 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1876 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1877 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1881 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1885 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1886 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1887 link. Closes: #346405
1888 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1890 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1891 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1892 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1893 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1894 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1895 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1896 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1913 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1916 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1920 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1923 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1928 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1932 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1933 installed. Closes: #342033
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1937 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1940 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1941 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1942 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1947 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1953 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1959 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1963 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1964 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1965 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1969 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1972 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1977 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1984 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1990 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1993 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1994 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1995 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1996 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1997 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1998 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1999 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2001 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2008 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2009 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2016 in standard man dirs.
2017 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2030 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2049 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2052 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2053 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2060 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2061 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2062 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2064 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2066 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2081 mode. Closes: #324161
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2088 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2089 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2090 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2091 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2099 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2100 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2101 is necesary for sanity.
2102 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2103 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2110 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2111 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2118 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2131 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2132 released, so use at your own risk.
2133 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2134 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2136 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2137 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2138 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2139 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2140 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2141 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2142 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2143 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2144 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2145 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2146 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2147 including twice per config file line now..
2148 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2149 and simplfy the rules file.
2150 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2151 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2152 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2154 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2155 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2162 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2169 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2176 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2183 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2184 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2185 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2186 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2187 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2188 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2195 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2196 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2197 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2202 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2205 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2206 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2211 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2214 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2215 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2216 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2221 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2224 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2225 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2226 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2246 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2247 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2248 unknown. Closes: #282924
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Spanish man page updates.
2262 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2276 * dh_desktop: reindent
2277 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2278 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2290 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2296 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2300 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2303 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2304 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2308 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2330 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2337 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2338 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2339 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2340 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2341 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2342 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2344 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2345 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2346 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2347 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2348 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2349 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2350 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2351 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2352 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2353 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2354 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2355 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2356 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2357 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2358 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2359 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2373 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2377 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2380 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2387 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2394 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2416 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2419 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2420 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2421 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2425 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2428 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2432 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2435 but occasionally right and necessary.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2439 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2442 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2443 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2444 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2445 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2446 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2453 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2455 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2456 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2457 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2458 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2459 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2460 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2461 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2462 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2463 postinst scripts for udebs.
2464 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2471 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2473 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2474 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2498 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2501 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2505 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2508 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2512 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2515 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2518 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2519 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2523 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2529 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2532 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2536 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2539 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2540 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2541 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2543 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2545 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2546 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2547 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2551 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2554 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2559 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2562 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2563 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2564 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2569 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2584 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2585 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2586 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2587 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2588 associated -dbg packages.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2595 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2602 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2609 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2616 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2624 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2631 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2636 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2639 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2647 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2648 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2649 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2650 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2651 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2652 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2653 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2654 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2655 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2656 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2663 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2671 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2672 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2679 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2680 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2688 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2695 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2702 out section number. Closes: #204731
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2725 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2728 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2729 removal. Closes: #204286
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2736 renaming. Closes: #203548
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2743 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2744 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2760 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2766 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2769 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2770 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2771 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2778 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2779 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2799 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2807 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2814 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2816 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2817 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2824 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2832 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2844 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2851 it break hard links (see #188663).
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2858 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2868 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2872 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2873 debconf-mergetemplates
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2877 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2880 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2887 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2894 * Update debhelper(1).
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2898 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2901 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2902 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2903 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2904 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2905 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2909 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2912 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2913 the shell. Closes: #178524
2914 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2918 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2921 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2928 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2932 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2935 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2936 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2937 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2938 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2943 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2946 files from installation.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2950 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2953 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2954 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2958 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2961 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2965 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2968 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2972 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2978 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2984 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2988 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2989 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2991 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2995 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2998 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2999 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3000 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3001 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3005 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3008 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3012 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3015 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3016 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3020 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3024 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3039 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3040 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3041 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3049 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3050 practice. Closes: #163303
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3060 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3070 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3072 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3073 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3074 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3075 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3076 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3083 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3104 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3137 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3138 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3139 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3140 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3158 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3161 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3162 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3169 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3170 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3171 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3172 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3173 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3177 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3180 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3182 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3187 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3190 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3194 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3197 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3198 right thing. Closes: #150644
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Stupid, evil typo.
3205 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3219 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3220 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3231 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3234 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3238 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3241 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3242 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3250 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3260 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3263 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3264 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Removing perl warning message.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3280 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3283 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3284 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3285 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3286 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3287 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3288 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3289 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3290 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3300 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3307 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3310 debconf-mergetemplate.
3311 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3312 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3316 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3319 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3320 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3321 dh_install, which ...
3322 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3323 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3324 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3325 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3326 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3327 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3328 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3329 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3330 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3331 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3332 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3333 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3334 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3335 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3336 other minor changes.
3337 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3338 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3339 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3340 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3341 course there's -X ..)
3342 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3343 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3344 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3346 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3347 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3348 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3349 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3350 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3355 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3361 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3364 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3374 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3380 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3386 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3392 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3395 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3396 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3397 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3398 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3400 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3401 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3405 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3411 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3414 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3418 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3421 upset. Closes: #131322
3423 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3425 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3428 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3429 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3430 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3431 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3432 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3433 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3434 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3435 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3436 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3437 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3438 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3439 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3440 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3441 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3442 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3444 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3448 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3451 - Better indenting of generated code.
3452 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3456 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3460 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3461 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3462 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3463 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3464 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3465 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3466 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3470 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3473 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3477 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3480 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3481 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3482 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3483 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3484 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3485 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3486 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3487 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3488 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3489 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3490 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3491 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3492 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3493 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3494 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3499 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3505 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3508 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3509 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3513 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3516 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3517 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3521 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3527 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3530 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3531 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3532 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3533 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3534 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3545 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3548 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3552 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3555 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3569 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3579 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3583 Also some indentation fixes.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3587 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3590 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3591 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3592 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3593 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3594 Closes: #106514, #85520
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3610 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3616 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3622 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3628 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3631 change it in debhelper v4..
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3641 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3644 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3648 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3651 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3655 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3661 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3664 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3665 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3666 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3667 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3668 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3669 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3670 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3671 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3672 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3673 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3674 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3675 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3679 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3682 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3686 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3693 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3696 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3697 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3698 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3699 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3700 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3701 program those options go to. So, for example,
3702 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3703 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3704 something complex. Closes: #89311
3705 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3709 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3712 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3713 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3714 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3718 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3721 through loop. Closes: #98598
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3725 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Missing semi-colon.
3728 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3729 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3733 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3736 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3737 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3738 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3742 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3745 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3746 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3750 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3753 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3757 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3760 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3761 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3765 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3768 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3769 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3770 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3774 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3777 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3778 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3779 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3783 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3786 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3790 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3796 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3802 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3808 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3814 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3817 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3821 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3824 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3825 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3826 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3827 followed. Closes: #85483
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3831 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3833 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3834 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3835 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3839 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3842 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3843 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3844 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3845 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3846 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3847 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3848 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3849 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3850 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3851 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3852 Closes: #88464, #77743
3853 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3854 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3855 us to deal with that gracefully.
3856 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3858 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3859 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3860 a while, Closes: #51225
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3864 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3870 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3873 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3877 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3881 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3886 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3889 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3890 don't make packlist files.
3891 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3892 debhelper coding standards.
3893 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3894 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3898 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3901 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3905 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3908 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3909 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3910 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3911 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3912 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3913 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3914 but is mildly deprecated.
3915 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3916 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3917 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3918 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3919 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3920 switching to statoverrides..
3921 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3922 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3923 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3924 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3925 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3926 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3928 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3929 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3930 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3931 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3932 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3933 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3934 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3935 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3936 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3938 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3939 variable names, pod man pages).
3940 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3941 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3942 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3943 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3944 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3945 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3946 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3966 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3972 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3973 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3974 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3980 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3981 they were previously ignored.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3987 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3988 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3994 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3995 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3996 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4000 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4006 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4008 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4009 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4015 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4016 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4017 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4018 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4019 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4020 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4021 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4022 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4023 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4024 it is an obsolete program.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4030 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4038 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4044 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4046 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4048 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4050 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * typo: Closes, #78567
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4081 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4082 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4083 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4084 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4085 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4089 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4092 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4097 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4100 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4101 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4102 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4103 backwards-compatibility.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4107 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4110 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4111 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4112 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4113 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4114 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4115 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4117 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4118 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4119 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4121 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4123 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4124 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4125 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4126 should now be raised to severity important..
4127 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4128 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4135 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4158 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4165 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4168 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4169 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4170 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4171 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4175 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4184 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4185 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4186 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4187 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4188 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4189 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4197 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4210 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4218 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4219 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4220 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4221 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4229 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4232 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4235 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4236 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4239 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4241 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4242 the TODO entry about it.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4256 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4257 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4264 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4265 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4266 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4267 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4287 (this appears to be logal).
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4294 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4295 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4296 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4297 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4310 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4311 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4312 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4313 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4326 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4340 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4341 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4342 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4363 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4364 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4365 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4366 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4367 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4368 notice until v2 is complete.
4369 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4370 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4371 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4372 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4373 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4374 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4376 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4377 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4378 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4379 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4399 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4403 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4413 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4414 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4415 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4416 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4424 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4425 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4426 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4431 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4434 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4435 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4442 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4449 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4463 depend on the build and install targets.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4470 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4496 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4497 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4498 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4499 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4500 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4501 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4503 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4504 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4505 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4506 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4507 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4508 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4509 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4513 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4519 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4525 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4528 right place. Closes: #55065
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4539 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4542 * Copyright date updates.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4549 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4554 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4560 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4579 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4585 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4588 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4589 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4590 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4591 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4592 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4593 bits until all files have been registered.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4597 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installmanpages:
4600 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4601 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4602 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4603 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4604 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4605 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4606 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4607 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4608 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4609 otherwise change the result at all.
4611 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4612 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4613 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4614 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4615 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4620 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4626 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4629 act on files that don't exist.
4630 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4631 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4632 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4634 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4635 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4636 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4637 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4641 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4647 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4653 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4656 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4663 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4665 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4666 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4667 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4671 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4674 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4675 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4676 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4677 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4678 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4679 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4680 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4682 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4684 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4688 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4695 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4710 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4729 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4730 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4731 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4732 I made some changes, though:
4733 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4734 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4735 that is a clear violation of policy.
4736 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4737 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4738 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4739 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4740 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4741 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4742 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4743 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4744 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4746 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4759 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4766 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4767 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4785 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4788 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4789 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4790 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4791 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4792 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4793 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4794 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4808 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4809 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4822 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4829 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4830 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4834 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4836 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4845 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4852 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4853 for the dependancies to be generated.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4857 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4860 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4864 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4867 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4868 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4869 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4874 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4877 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4878 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4888 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4897 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4910 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4911 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4912 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4913 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4914 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4915 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4916 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4917 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4918 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4919 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4920 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4921 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4928 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4929 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4931 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4932 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4933 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4934 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4935 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4936 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4938 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4939 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4943 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4946 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4950 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4960 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4965 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4968 for building debhelper.
4969 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4973 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4980 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4983 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4990 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4991 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4992 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4993 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4994 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4995 it's always available.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4999 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5002 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5003 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5004 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5011 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5012 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5025 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5035 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5038 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5039 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5040 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5044 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5047 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5052 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5055 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5056 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5058 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5059 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5075 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5078 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5082 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5085 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5086 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5088 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5095 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5096 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5097 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5104 things if CDPATH is set.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5114 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5117 seems to make sense for the transition.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5124 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5132 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5133 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5137 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5140 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5147 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5148 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5149 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5150 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5160 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5163 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5164 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5165 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5166 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5167 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5168 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5169 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5170 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5171 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5172 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5180 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5181 * README: mention doc/v2
5182 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5183 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5189 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5190 be using this script RSN.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5197 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5198 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5199 more than 1 init script.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5206 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * Changed perl version detection.
5213 * Changed call to find.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5220 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5222 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * Really include dh_installpam.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5236 * Wrote man page for same.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5243 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5244 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5259 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5260 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5261 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5262 x bit was being set!
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5269 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5270 well. (Closes: 38900)
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5277 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5278 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5288 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5304 help from Julian Gilbey.
5305 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5306 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5307 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5308 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5309 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5310 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5311 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5322 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5344 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5351 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5358 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5371 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5375 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5390 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5391 may be deleted. (#35845)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * Various man page enhancements.
5398 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5406 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5407 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5411 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5414 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5415 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5416 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5418 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5419 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5424 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Another very minor typo fix.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5436 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Very minor typo fix.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5445 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5446 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5456 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5459 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5460 variables properly (#34850).
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5470 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5473 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5474 (automatically generated by build process).
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5480 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5487 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5488 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5490 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5497 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * README: minor typo fix.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5510 leave it at that. :-)
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5526 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5529 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5530 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5531 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5535 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5538 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5542 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5545 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5549 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5552 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5553 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5554 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5555 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5559 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5562 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5563 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5564 Craig Small for spotting this.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5571 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5572 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5582 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5585 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5591 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5592 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5593 working on the last version of debhelper.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5600 being made. (#23255)
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5610 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5613 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5617 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5620 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5621 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5622 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5623 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5630 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5631 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5632 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5633 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5635 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5636 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5638 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5655 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5658 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5659 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5660 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5661 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5662 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5663 suidregister actually supports it.
5664 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5665 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5669 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5676 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5679 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5680 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5681 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5682 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5683 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5684 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5685 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5689 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5691 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5692 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5699 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5700 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5701 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5702 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5709 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5711 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5712 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5713 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5714 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5715 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5716 effect, either. (#30118)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5729 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5730 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5743 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5744 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5745 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5746 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5753 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5754 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5767 packages, painlessly.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5789 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * The perl conversion is complete.
5793 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5795 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5796 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5797 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5805 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5806 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5807 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5811 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5814 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5816 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5818 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5819 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5826 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5827 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5840 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5841 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5842 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5843 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5844 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5851 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5852 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5853 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5854 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5858 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5861 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5865 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5868 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5869 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5870 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5871 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5872 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5873 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5874 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5875 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5879 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5885 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5888 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5889 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5890 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5898 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5902 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5905 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5909 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5912 sections of shared libraries.
5913 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5914 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5915 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5916 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5917 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5918 things you don't want them to.
5919 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5920 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5924 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5927 shared libraries. (#26414)
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5931 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5933 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5934 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5935 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5936 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5944 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5946 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5947 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5948 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5949 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5950 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5954 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5957 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5961 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5964 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5965 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5970 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5973 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5977 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5980 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5981 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5982 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5983 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5984 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5986 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5987 remove debian/files properly.
5988 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5989 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5990 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5991 * Removed bogus menu file.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5995 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5998 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6002 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6005 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6006 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6007 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6008 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6009 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6010 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6014 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6017 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6018 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6019 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6020 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6024 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6031 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6034 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6035 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6037 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6038 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6039 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6040 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6041 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6042 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6046 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6049 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6050 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6051 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6052 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6053 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6054 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6055 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6056 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6057 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6058 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6059 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6060 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6061 passed any switches.
6062 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6066 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6069 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6070 at all for a long while.
6071 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6072 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6073 large chunks in the process.
6074 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6075 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6076 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6081 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6084 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6086 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6091 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6094 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6095 that don't always have the same files in them.
6096 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6097 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6098 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6102 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6106 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6107 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6108 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6109 updating 27 man pages.
6110 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6111 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6112 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6113 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6114 programs act on. (#25247)
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6118 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6122 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6123 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6124 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6125 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6126 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6127 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6139 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6146 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6149 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6153 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6159 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6162 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6163 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6164 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6165 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6166 package by accident.
6167 * Is version 1.0 next?
6169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6171 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6173 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6174 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6175 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6179 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6182 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6183 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6184 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6185 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6186 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6188 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6193 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6196 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6197 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6201 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6204 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6208 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6211 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6212 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6217 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6223 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6226 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6227 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6232 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6238 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6241 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6242 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6243 past week. Thanks, guys!
6245 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6246 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6247 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6248 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6249 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6250 would do in the same situation.
6251 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6252 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6254 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6256 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6257 permissions changed.
6258 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6259 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6260 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6261 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6262 files are treated identically.
6263 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6264 * Minor man page fixes.
6265 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6266 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6267 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6271 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6274 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6275 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6276 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6277 use -X multiple times, too.
6278 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6279 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6283 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6286 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6287 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6291 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6294 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6298 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6301 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6302 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6303 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6304 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6305 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6306 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6307 shape if you're starting a new package.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6311 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6314 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6318 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6321 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6322 because of missing symlinks.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6326 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6332 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6335 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6336 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6337 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6338 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6339 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6341 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6342 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6346 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6348 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6349 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6350 to be changed after the fact :-)
6351 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6355 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6357 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6358 no version string after the -V.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6364 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6365 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6370 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6373 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6377 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6380 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6381 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6382 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6383 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6384 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6385 I always welcome corrections!
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6395 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6398 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6399 * Documented this new switch.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6403 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6406 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6407 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6408 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6409 no packages use the old behavior.
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6413 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6416 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6417 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6424 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6428 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6434 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6437 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6441 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6444 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6445 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6446 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6456 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6459 into the source package by accident.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6463 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6466 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6467 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6468 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6469 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6470 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6471 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6476 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6480 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6481 inspired to implement some of it.
6482 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6486 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6488 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6489 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6493 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6496 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6497 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6501 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6504 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6505 have done.) (#17598)
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6509 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6521 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6523 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6524 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6531 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6532 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6539 argument processor in perl.
6540 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6541 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6542 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6543 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6550 type directories. (#16933)
6551 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6552 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6553 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6554 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6555 are supported. (#16935)
6556 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6561 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6564 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6572 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6573 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6574 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6575 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6576 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6577 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6581 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6583 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6584 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6585 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6587 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6588 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6589 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6590 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6591 a given package, or -i or -a.
6592 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6593 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6594 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6595 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6596 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6597 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6598 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6599 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6600 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6602 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6603 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6604 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6608 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6611 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6612 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6617 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6620 does not have a section.
6622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6624 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6626 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6627 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6628 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6629 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6633 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * Fixed typo #16215.
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6642 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6643 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6644 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6645 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6646 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6651 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6654 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6655 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6656 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6673 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6675 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6676 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6677 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6678 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6679 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6680 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6681 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6691 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6694 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6698 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6700 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6701 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6702 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6703 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6707 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6710 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6720 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6722 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6723 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6727 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6730 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6734 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6740 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6743 postinst, postrm, etc.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6747 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6753 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6756 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6757 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6758 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6759 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6760 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6764 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6766 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6767 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6768 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6775 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6779 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6782 installing package files into.
6783 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6788 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6792 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6796 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6802 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6804 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6805 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6809 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6811 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6812 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6813 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6814 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6815 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6819 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6821 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6822 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6823 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6824 multiple binary packages.
6825 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6826 should rebuild them with this version.
6827 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6831 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6834 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6838 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6840 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6841 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6845 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6847 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6848 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6849 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6850 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6851 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6852 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6853 debian/README.debian.
6854 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6855 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6856 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6857 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6858 in a few situations.)
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6862 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6868 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6874 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6877 * Fixed several man pages.
6879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6881 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6883 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6884 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6885 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6889 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6892 is ready for general use.
6893 * Added man pages for all commands.
6894 * Multiple binary package support.
6895 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6896 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6897 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6899 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6900 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6901 auto-installed as parameters.
6902 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6904 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6907 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6908 the package build directory it is to act on.
6909 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6910 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6911 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6915 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6917 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6918 ready to replace debstd.
6920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400