1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation.
5 * Fix french misspelling
8 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
9 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
10 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
11 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
12 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
13 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
15 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
16 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
17 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
18 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
19 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
20 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
21 (Thanks, David Prévot)
22 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
23 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
24 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
25 target fails. Closes: #601037
26 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
31 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
37 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
41 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
43 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
47 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
49 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
50 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
51 introduced by the fix to #527990.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
55 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
58 changes are planned for that mode.
59 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
60 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
61 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
62 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
63 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
64 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
65 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
66 (genesis) still uses them.
67 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
68 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
69 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
70 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
71 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
72 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
73 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
74 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
75 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
76 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
77 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
78 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
79 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
80 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
81 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
82 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
83 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
84 commands. (See #570039)
85 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
87 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
92 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
96 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
97 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
98 in control file or debhelper config files.
99 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
103 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
106 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
107 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
111 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
114 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
118 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
121 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
122 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
126 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Updated French translation.
129 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
130 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
131 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
132 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
134 * Typo. Closes: #571968
135 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
136 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
137 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
138 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
139 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
140 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
141 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
142 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
143 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
145 * dh: Improve documentation.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
149 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
151 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
152 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
153 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
157 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
160 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
164 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
167 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
171 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
174 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
175 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
176 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
177 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
178 options that they do not support.
179 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
180 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
181 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
182 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
183 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
184 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
193 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
194 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
195 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
196 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
197 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
198 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
199 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
200 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
201 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
205 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
208 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
209 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
210 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
211 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
215 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Typo. Closes: #558654
218 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
219 installed. Closes: #558782
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
223 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
226 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
227 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
228 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
229 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
230 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
234 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
236 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
237 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
238 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
239 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
243 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
246 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
247 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
251 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
253 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
257 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
259 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
260 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
261 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
262 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
263 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
264 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
265 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
266 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
267 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
268 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
269 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
270 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
271 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
272 time soon.) Closes: #554509
273 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
275 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
276 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
277 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
278 document id. Closes: #555677
279 * Typo. Closes: #555659
280 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
281 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
282 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
283 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
285 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
286 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
287 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
292 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
295 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
296 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
297 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
298 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
299 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
300 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
301 translation (#494300 part 2)
304 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
306 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
307 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
308 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
309 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
310 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
314 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
317 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
318 (It was only run once due to logging.)
319 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
320 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
321 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
322 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
323 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
324 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
325 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
326 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
327 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
328 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
332 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
336 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
339 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
340 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
344 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
347 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
348 flag with arch all/any packages.
349 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
350 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
351 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
352 situation. Closes: #540794
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
356 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
360 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
361 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
362 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
363 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
364 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
367 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
368 the default. Closes: #538201
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
373 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
377 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
378 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
379 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
380 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
381 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
383 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
384 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
385 * Above Closes: #491117
386 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
391 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
397 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
398 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
399 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
403 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
406 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
407 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
408 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
409 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
410 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
415 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
418 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
419 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
423 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
425 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
429 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
431 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
432 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
434 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
435 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
436 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
440 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
442 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
443 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
447 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
453 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
455 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
456 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
457 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
462 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
464 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
468 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
471 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
472 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
473 created by using `python' first during build and install.
475 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
480 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
482 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
486 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
488 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
489 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
493 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
495 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
499 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
501 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
505 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
507 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
508 contributed by Modestas Vainius
509 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
510 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
511 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
512 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
513 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
514 that support it. Closes: #480577
515 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
516 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
517 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
519 - Adds support for cmake.
520 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
521 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
523 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
525 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
526 that use them. The options are:
527 --sourcedir, --destdir
528 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
529 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
530 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
531 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
532 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
536 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
542 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
545 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
546 default. Closes: #537140
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
553 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
554 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
558 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
561 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
565 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
568 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
575 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
577 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
578 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
579 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
583 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
586 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
587 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
588 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
592 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
595 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
596 warning or deprecation message.
597 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
598 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
599 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
600 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
601 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
602 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
603 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
604 Closes: #534639, #357434
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
608 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
614 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
617 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
618 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
619 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
620 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
622 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
623 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
624 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
628 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
634 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
644 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
648 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
652 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
653 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
655 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
656 file support. Closes: #494914
657 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
661 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
664 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
665 parameters. Closes: #527256
666 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
667 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
668 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
672 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
676 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
677 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
678 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
682 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
685 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
686 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
687 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
691 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
694 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
695 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
697 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
698 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
699 by triggers). Closes: #521181
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
703 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
707 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
711 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
714 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
715 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
716 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
717 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
722 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
728 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
731 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
732 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
733 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
734 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
735 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
737 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
738 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
739 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
740 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
741 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
742 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
746 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
749 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
750 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
751 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
752 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
753 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
755 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
759 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
761 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
765 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
767 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
768 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
769 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
770 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
771 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
772 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
773 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
774 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
775 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
776 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
777 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
781 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
783 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
784 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
786 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
787 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
788 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
789 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
791 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
792 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
796 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
798 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
799 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
800 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
801 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
802 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
803 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
804 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
806 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
807 that uses them. Affected options are:
808 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
809 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
810 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
811 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
812 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
813 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
814 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
815 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
816 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
817 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
818 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
819 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
823 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
830 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
836 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
838 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
839 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
841 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
842 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
843 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
844 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
845 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
847 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
849 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
850 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
851 rules (see bug #509756).
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
855 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
861 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
862 * Typo. Closes: #493062
863 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
864 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
868 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
871 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
872 empty files. Closes: #490937
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
876 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
882 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
889 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
892 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
893 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
894 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
895 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
900 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
902 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
903 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
904 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
905 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
909 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
912 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
913 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
914 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
915 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
916 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
920 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
927 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
929 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
930 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
931 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
932 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
933 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
934 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
935 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
936 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
937 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
938 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
942 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
945 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
946 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
947 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
948 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
950 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
951 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
952 breaking backwards compatibility.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
956 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
959 message in perl 5.10.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
963 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
969 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Convert copyright file to new format.
972 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
976 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
979 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
983 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
986 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
987 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
988 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
989 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
990 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
991 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
992 logging by dh_listpackages.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
996 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
999 run and there are no packages of that type.
1000 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1001 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1002 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1003 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1005 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1006 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1010 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1013 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1014 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1018 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1021 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1022 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1024 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1025 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1026 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1027 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1028 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1029 planned but not yet implemented.)
1030 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1031 if the Makefile has such a target.
1032 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1033 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1034 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1035 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1036 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1037 but not yet implemented.)
1038 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1039 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1040 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1041 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1042 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1044 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1046 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1047 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1049 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1050 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1051 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1056 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1059 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1060 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1064 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1066 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1067 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1068 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1072 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1078 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1084 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1087 just those installed by the program.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1091 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1094 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1095 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1099 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1102 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1103 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1104 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1105 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1109 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1112 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1113 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1117 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1120 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1121 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1125 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1128 with policy. Closes: #461392
1129 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1130 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1131 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1132 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1133 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1137 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1140 Closes: #460340, #460351
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1144 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1147 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1148 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1149 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1150 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1154 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1157 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1158 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1159 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1160 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1161 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1162 package build directory won't work.
1163 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1164 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1165 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1166 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1167 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1168 mode. Closes: #459426
1169 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1174 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1177 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1185 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1186 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1187 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1188 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1189 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1190 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1194 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1197 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1198 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1199 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1200 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1204 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1207 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1208 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1209 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1210 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1211 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1215 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1218 debian/package.triggers files.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1222 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1225 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1229 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1232 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1233 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1234 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1235 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1240 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1243 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1247 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1250 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1251 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1253 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1258 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1262 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1263 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1264 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1282 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1285 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1287 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1288 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1289 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1291 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1292 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1293 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1297 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1300 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1301 * Update urls to web page.
1302 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1303 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1304 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1305 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1309 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1312 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1313 - typo in alternatives call
1314 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1316 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1317 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1324 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1329 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1335 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1341 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1344 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1346 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1347 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1348 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1349 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1350 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1351 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1352 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1353 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1354 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1355 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1356 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1363 package install. Closes: #415717
1364 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1365 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1366 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1367 script and then remove the python files.
1368 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1369 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1370 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1371 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1372 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1373 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1374 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1375 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1376 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1377 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1378 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1379 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1380 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1384 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Correct typo in french translation
1390 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1391 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1393 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1395 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1396 Closes: #406921, #381940
1397 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1399 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1400 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1401 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1402 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1403 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1404 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1405 specified). Closes: #381851
1406 * Misc minor changes.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1417 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1418 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1428 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1429 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1432 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1433 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1435 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1436 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1437 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1438 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1442 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1445 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1448 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1452 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1458 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1464 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1465 a difficult situation.
1466 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1467 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1468 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1469 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1470 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1471 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1472 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1473 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1474 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1475 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1479 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Non-maintainer upload.
1482 * Update of dh_python
1483 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1484 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1486 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1487 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1488 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1489 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1490 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1492 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1494 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Non-maintainer upload.
1497 * Update of dh_python
1498 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1499 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1500 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1501 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1502 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1503 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1504 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1505 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1506 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1507 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1509 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1510 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1511 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1512 the not too-distant future).
1513 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1514 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1515 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1516 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1517 thus made the build fail.
1519 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1521 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Non-maintainer upload.
1524 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1526 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1528 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1531 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1532 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1533 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1534 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1535 package. Closes: #301424
1536 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1537 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1538 fonts). Closes: #372686
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1542 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1548 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1549 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1550 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1551 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1552 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1553 above, but already depends on that.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1557 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1560 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1561 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1562 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1563 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1564 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1568 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1574 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1580 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1581 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1585 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1588 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1592 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1596 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1597 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1598 new version (0.24.1).
1599 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1600 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1603 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1604 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1605 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1606 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1607 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1608 new directory on their own.
1609 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1610 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1614 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1617 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1618 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1619 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1620 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1624 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1627 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1628 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1629 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1630 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1631 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1635 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1641 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1645 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1646 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1650 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1651 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1655 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1657 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1658 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1660 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1661 ignored. Closes: #337664
1663 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1679 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1680 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1681 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1682 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1683 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1684 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1685 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1689 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1692 version. Closes: #350607
1693 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1694 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1695 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1696 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1703 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1704 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1705 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1709 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1722 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1725 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1732 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1733 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1734 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1735 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1736 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1737 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1744 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1745 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1750 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1753 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1760 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1764 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1767 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1768 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1769 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1770 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1771 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1772 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1780 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1781 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1782 link. Closes: #346405
1783 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1785 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1786 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1787 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1788 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1789 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1790 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1791 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1795 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1811 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1815 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1818 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1827 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1828 installed. Closes: #342033
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1832 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1835 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1836 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1837 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1854 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1858 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1859 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1860 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1864 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1867 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1872 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1879 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1885 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1888 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1889 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1890 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1891 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1892 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1893 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1894 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1896 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1900 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1903 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1904 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1911 in standard man dirs.
1912 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1925 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1944 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1947 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1948 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1955 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1956 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1957 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1959 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1961 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1976 mode. Closes: #324161
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1980 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1983 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1984 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1985 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1986 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1994 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1995 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1996 is necesary for sanity.
1997 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1998 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2005 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2006 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2013 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2026 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2027 released, so use at your own risk.
2028 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2029 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2031 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2032 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2033 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2034 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2035 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2036 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2037 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2038 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2039 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2040 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2041 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2042 including twice per config file line now..
2043 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2044 and simplfy the rules file.
2045 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2046 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2047 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2049 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2050 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2057 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2064 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2071 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2078 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2079 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2080 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2081 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2082 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2083 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2090 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2091 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2092 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2097 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2100 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2101 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2106 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2109 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2110 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2111 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2119 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2120 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2121 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2141 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2142 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2143 unknown. Closes: #282924
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Spanish man page updates.
2157 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2171 * dh_desktop: reindent
2172 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2173 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2185 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2191 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2195 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2198 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2199 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2203 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2225 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2232 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2233 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2234 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2235 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2236 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2237 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2239 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2240 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2241 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2242 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2243 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2244 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2245 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2246 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2247 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2248 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2249 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2250 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2251 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2252 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2253 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2254 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2268 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2272 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2275 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2282 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2289 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2314 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2315 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2316 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2323 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2330 but occasionally right and necessary.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2337 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2338 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2339 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2340 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2341 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2348 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2350 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2351 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2352 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2353 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2354 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2355 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2356 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2357 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2358 postinst scripts for udebs.
2359 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2363 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2366 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2368 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2369 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2379 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2396 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2400 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2403 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2410 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2413 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2414 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2424 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2427 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2434 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2435 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2436 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2438 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2440 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2441 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2442 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2446 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2449 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2454 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2457 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2458 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2459 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2479 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2480 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2481 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2482 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2483 associated -dbg packages.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2490 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2497 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2504 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2508 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2511 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2519 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2526 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2534 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2538 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2542 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2543 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2544 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2545 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2546 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2547 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2548 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2549 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2550 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2551 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2558 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2566 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2567 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2574 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2575 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2583 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2590 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2597 out section number. Closes: #204731
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2623 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2624 removal. Closes: #204286
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2631 renaming. Closes: #203548
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2638 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2639 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2643 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2655 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2661 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2664 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2665 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2666 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2673 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2674 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2691 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2694 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2702 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2709 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2711 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2712 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2719 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2727 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2731 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2739 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2746 it break hard links (see #188663).
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2753 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2763 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2767 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2768 debconf-mergetemplates
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2772 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2775 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2782 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2786 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2789 * Update debhelper(1).
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2793 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2796 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2797 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2798 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2799 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2800 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2807 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2808 the shell. Closes: #178524
2809 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2813 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2816 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2820 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2823 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2827 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2830 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2831 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2832 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2833 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2838 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2841 files from installation.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2848 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2849 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2856 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2860 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2863 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2867 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2873 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2879 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2883 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2884 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2886 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2890 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2893 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2894 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2895 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2896 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2903 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2907 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2910 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2911 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2915 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2919 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2930 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2934 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2935 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2936 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2944 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2945 practice. Closes: #163303
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2965 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2967 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2968 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2969 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2970 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2971 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2975 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2978 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2999 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3022 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3032 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3033 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3034 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3035 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3056 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3057 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3064 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3065 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3066 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3067 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3068 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3075 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3077 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3085 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3092 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3093 right thing. Closes: #150644
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3097 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Stupid, evil typo.
3100 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3114 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3115 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3129 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3136 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3137 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3142 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3145 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3158 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3159 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3163 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3169 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Removing perl warning message.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3178 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3179 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3180 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3181 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3182 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3183 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3184 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3185 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3205 debconf-mergetemplate.
3206 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3207 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3211 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3214 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3215 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3216 dh_install, which ...
3217 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3218 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3219 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3220 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3221 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3222 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3223 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3224 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3225 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3226 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3227 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3228 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3229 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3230 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3231 other minor changes.
3232 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3233 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3234 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3235 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3236 course there's -X ..)
3237 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3238 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3239 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3241 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3242 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3243 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3244 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3245 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3250 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3256 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3259 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3263 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3269 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3275 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3281 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3287 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3290 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3291 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3292 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3293 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3295 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3296 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3300 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3306 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3309 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3313 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3316 upset. Closes: #131322
3318 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3320 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3323 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3324 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3325 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3326 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3327 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3328 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3329 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3330 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3331 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3332 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3333 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3334 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3335 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3336 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3337 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3339 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3346 - Better indenting of generated code.
3347 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3351 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3355 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3356 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3357 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3358 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3359 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3360 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3361 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3368 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3372 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3375 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3376 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3377 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3378 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3379 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3380 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3381 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3382 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3383 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3384 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3385 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3386 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3387 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3388 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3389 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3394 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3400 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3403 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3404 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3408 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3411 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3412 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3416 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3422 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3425 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3426 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3427 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3428 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3429 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3440 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3443 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3447 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3450 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3461 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3464 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3468 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3474 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3478 Also some indentation fixes.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3485 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3486 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3487 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3488 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3489 Closes: #106514, #85520
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3499 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3505 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3511 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3517 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3523 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3526 change it in debhelper v4..
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3530 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3536 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3539 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3543 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3546 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3550 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3556 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3559 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3560 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3561 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3562 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3563 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3564 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3565 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3566 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3567 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3568 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3569 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3570 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3574 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3577 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3591 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3592 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3593 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3594 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3595 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3596 program those options go to. So, for example,
3597 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3598 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3599 something complex. Closes: #89311
3600 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3607 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3608 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3609 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3616 through loop. Closes: #98598
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Missing semi-colon.
3623 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3624 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3628 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3631 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3632 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3633 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3637 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3640 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3641 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3648 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3652 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3655 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3656 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3660 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3663 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3664 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3665 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3669 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3672 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3673 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3674 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3678 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3681 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3685 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3691 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3697 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3703 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3709 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3712 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3716 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3719 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3720 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3721 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3722 followed. Closes: #85483
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3726 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3728 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3729 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3730 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3734 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3737 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3738 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3739 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3740 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3741 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3742 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3743 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3744 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3745 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3746 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3747 Closes: #88464, #77743
3748 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3749 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3750 us to deal with that gracefully.
3751 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3753 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3754 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3755 a while, Closes: #51225
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3759 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3765 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3768 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3772 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3776 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3781 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3784 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3785 don't make packlist files.
3786 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3787 debhelper coding standards.
3788 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3789 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3793 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3796 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3800 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3803 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3804 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3805 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3806 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3807 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3808 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3809 but is mildly deprecated.
3810 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3811 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3812 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3813 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3814 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3815 switching to statoverrides..
3816 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3817 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3818 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3819 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3820 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3821 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3823 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3824 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3825 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3826 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3827 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3828 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3829 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3830 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3831 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3833 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3834 variable names, pod man pages).
3835 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3836 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3837 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3838 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3839 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3840 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3841 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3861 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3865 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3867 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3868 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3869 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3875 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3876 they were previously ignored.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3882 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3883 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3889 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3890 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3891 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3897 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3903 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3904 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3910 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3911 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3912 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3913 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3914 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3915 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3916 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3917 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3918 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3919 it is an obsolete program.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3923 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3925 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3933 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3939 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3941 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3943 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3945 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3955 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * typo: Closes, #78567
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3976 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3977 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3978 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3979 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3980 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3987 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3995 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3996 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3997 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3998 backwards-compatibility.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4005 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4006 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4007 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4008 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4009 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4010 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4012 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4013 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4014 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4016 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4018 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4019 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4020 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4021 should now be raised to severity important..
4022 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4023 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4030 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4035 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4041 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4063 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4064 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4065 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4066 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4079 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4080 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4081 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4082 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4083 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4084 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4089 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4092 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4102 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4105 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4113 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4114 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4115 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4116 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4124 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4127 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4130 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4131 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4134 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4136 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4137 the TODO entry about it.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4151 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4152 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4159 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4160 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4161 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4162 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4182 (this appears to be logal).
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4189 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4190 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4191 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4192 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4205 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4206 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4207 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4208 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4221 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4235 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4236 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4237 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4258 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4259 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4260 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4261 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4262 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4263 notice until v2 is complete.
4264 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4265 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4266 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4267 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4268 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4269 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4271 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4272 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4273 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4274 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4294 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4308 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4309 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4310 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4311 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4319 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4320 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4321 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4329 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4330 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4337 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4344 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4355 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4358 depend on the build and install targets.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4365 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4382 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4388 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4391 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4392 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4393 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4394 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4395 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4396 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4398 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4399 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4400 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4401 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4402 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4403 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4404 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4414 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4423 right place. Closes: #55065
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4437 * Copyright date updates.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4444 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4449 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4455 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4483 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4484 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4485 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4486 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4487 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4488 bits until all files have been registered.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4492 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_installmanpages:
4495 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4496 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4497 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4498 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4499 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4500 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4501 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4502 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4503 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4504 otherwise change the result at all.
4506 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4507 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4508 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4509 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4510 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4515 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4524 act on files that don't exist.
4525 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4526 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4527 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4529 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4530 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4531 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4532 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4536 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4542 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4551 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4555 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4558 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4560 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4561 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4562 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4566 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4569 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4570 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4571 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4572 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4573 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4574 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4575 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4577 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4579 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4583 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4590 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4605 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4609 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4624 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4625 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4626 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4627 I made some changes, though:
4628 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4629 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4630 that is a clear violation of policy.
4631 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4632 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4633 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4634 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4635 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4636 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4637 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4638 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4639 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4641 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4654 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4661 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4662 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4683 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4684 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4685 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4686 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4687 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4688 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4689 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4703 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4704 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4717 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4724 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4725 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4731 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4740 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4747 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4748 for the dependancies to be generated.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4755 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4762 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4763 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4764 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4772 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4773 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4792 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4805 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4806 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4807 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4808 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4809 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4810 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4811 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4812 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4813 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4814 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4815 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4816 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4823 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4824 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4826 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4827 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4828 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4829 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4830 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4831 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4833 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4834 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4841 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4855 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4863 for building debhelper.
4864 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4878 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4885 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4886 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4887 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4888 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4889 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4890 it's always available.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4897 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4898 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4899 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4906 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4907 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4911 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4920 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4933 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4934 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4935 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4939 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4942 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4950 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4951 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4953 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4954 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4973 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4980 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4981 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4983 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4990 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4991 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4992 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4999 things if CDPATH is set.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5012 seems to make sense for the transition.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5019 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5027 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5028 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5035 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5042 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5043 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5044 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5045 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5058 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5059 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5060 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5061 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5062 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5063 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5064 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5065 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5066 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5067 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5075 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5076 * README: mention doc/v2
5077 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5078 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5084 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5085 be using this script RSN.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5092 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5093 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5094 more than 1 init script.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5101 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Changed perl version detection.
5108 * Changed call to find.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5115 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5117 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Really include dh_installpam.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5131 * Wrote man page for same.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5138 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5139 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5154 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5155 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5156 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5157 x bit was being set!
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5164 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5165 well. (Closes: 38900)
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5172 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5173 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5199 help from Julian Gilbey.
5200 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5201 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5202 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5203 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5204 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5205 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5206 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5230 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5239 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5246 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5253 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5266 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5270 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5285 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5286 may be deleted. (#35845)
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Various man page enhancements.
5293 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5301 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5302 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5306 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5309 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5310 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5311 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5313 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5314 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5325 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * Another very minor typo fix.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5331 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Very minor typo fix.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5340 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5341 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5354 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5355 variables properly (#34850).
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5368 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5369 (automatically generated by build process).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5375 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5382 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5383 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5385 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5392 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * README: minor typo fix.
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5402 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5405 leave it at that. :-)
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5424 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5425 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5426 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5433 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5440 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5447 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5448 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5449 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5450 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5454 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5457 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5458 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5459 Craig Small for spotting this.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5466 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5467 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5477 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5480 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5484 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5486 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5487 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5488 working on the last version of debhelper.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5492 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5495 being made. (#23255)
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5505 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5508 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5512 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5515 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5516 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5517 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5518 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5525 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5526 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5527 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5528 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5530 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5531 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5533 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5553 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5554 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5555 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5556 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5557 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5558 suidregister actually supports it.
5559 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5560 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5564 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5571 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5574 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5575 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5576 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5577 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5578 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5579 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5580 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5584 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5586 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5587 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5594 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5595 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5596 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5597 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5604 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5606 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5607 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5608 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5609 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5610 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5611 effect, either. (#30118)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5624 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5625 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5638 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5639 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5640 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5641 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5648 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5649 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5653 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5659 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5662 packages, painlessly.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5666 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5672 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5678 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5684 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * The perl conversion is complete.
5688 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5690 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5691 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5692 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5700 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5701 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5702 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5706 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5709 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5711 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5713 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5714 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5721 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5722 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5735 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5736 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5737 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5738 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5739 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5746 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5747 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5748 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5749 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5756 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5760 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5763 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5764 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5765 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5766 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5767 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5768 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5769 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5770 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5774 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5780 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5783 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5784 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5785 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5790 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5793 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5800 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5807 sections of shared libraries.
5808 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5809 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5810 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5811 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5812 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5813 things you don't want them to.
5814 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5815 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5819 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5822 shared libraries. (#26414)
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5826 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5828 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5829 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5830 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5831 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5835 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5839 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5841 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5842 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5843 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5844 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5845 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5852 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5856 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5859 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5860 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5865 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5868 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5875 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5876 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5877 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5878 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5879 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5881 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5882 remove debian/files properly.
5883 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5884 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5885 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5886 * Removed bogus menu file.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5890 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5893 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5900 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5901 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5902 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5903 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5904 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5905 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5909 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5912 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5913 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5914 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5915 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5919 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5926 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5929 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5930 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5932 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5933 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5934 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5935 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5936 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5937 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5941 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5944 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5945 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5946 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5947 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5948 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5949 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5950 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5951 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5952 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5953 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5954 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5955 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5956 passed any switches.
5957 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5961 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5964 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5965 at all for a long while.
5966 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5967 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5968 large chunks in the process.
5969 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5970 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5971 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5976 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5979 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5981 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5986 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5989 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5990 that don't always have the same files in them.
5991 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5992 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5993 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5997 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6001 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6002 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6003 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6004 updating 27 man pages.
6005 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6006 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6007 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6008 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6009 programs act on. (#25247)
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6013 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6017 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6018 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6019 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6020 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6021 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6022 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6027 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6044 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6048 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6054 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6057 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6058 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6059 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6060 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6061 package by accident.
6062 * Is version 1.0 next?
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6066 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6069 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6070 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6074 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6077 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6078 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6079 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6080 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6081 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6083 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6088 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6091 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6092 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6096 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6099 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6103 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6106 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6107 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6112 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6118 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6121 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6122 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6127 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6133 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6136 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6137 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6138 past week. Thanks, guys!
6140 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6141 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6142 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6143 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6144 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6145 would do in the same situation.
6146 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6147 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6149 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6151 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6152 permissions changed.
6153 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6154 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6155 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6156 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6157 files are treated identically.
6158 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6159 * Minor man page fixes.
6160 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6161 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6162 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6166 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6169 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6170 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6171 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6172 use -X multiple times, too.
6173 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6174 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6178 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6181 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6182 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6186 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6189 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6193 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6196 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6197 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6198 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6199 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6200 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6201 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6202 shape if you're starting a new package.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6206 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6209 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6213 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6216 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6217 because of missing symlinks.
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6221 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6227 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6230 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6231 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6232 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6233 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6234 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6236 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6237 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6241 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6243 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6244 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6245 to be changed after the fact :-)
6246 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6250 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6252 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6253 no version string after the -V.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6257 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6259 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6260 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6265 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6268 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6275 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6276 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6277 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6278 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6279 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6280 I always welcome corrections!
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6284 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6290 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6293 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6294 * Documented this new switch.
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6298 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6301 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6302 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6303 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6304 no packages use the old behavior.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6308 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6311 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6312 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6316 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6319 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6329 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6332 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6336 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6339 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6340 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6341 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6345 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6347 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6351 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6354 into the source package by accident.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6358 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6361 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6362 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6363 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6364 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6365 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6366 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6371 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6375 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6376 inspired to implement some of it.
6377 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6381 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6384 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6388 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6391 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6392 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6396 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6398 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6399 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6400 have done.) (#17598)
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6404 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6410 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6416 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6418 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6419 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6423 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6426 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6427 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6431 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6434 argument processor in perl.
6435 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6436 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6437 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6438 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6445 type directories. (#16933)
6446 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6447 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6448 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6449 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6450 are supported. (#16935)
6451 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6456 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6458 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6459 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6463 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6467 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6468 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6469 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6470 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6471 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6472 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6476 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6479 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6480 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6482 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6483 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6484 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6485 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6486 a given package, or -i or -a.
6487 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6488 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6489 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6490 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6491 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6492 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6493 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6494 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6495 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6497 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6498 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6499 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6506 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6507 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6515 does not have a section.
6517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6519 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6521 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6522 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6523 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6524 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6528 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * Fixed typo #16215.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6537 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6538 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6539 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6540 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6541 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6546 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6549 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6550 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6551 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6556 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6562 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6571 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6572 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6573 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6574 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6575 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6576 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6589 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6593 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6596 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6597 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6598 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6605 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6609 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6611 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6615 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6618 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6622 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6624 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6625 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6635 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6638 postinst, postrm, etc.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6642 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6648 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6651 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6652 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6653 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6654 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6655 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6659 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6662 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6663 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6670 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6674 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6676 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6677 installing package files into.
6678 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6683 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6687 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6691 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6697 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6699 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6700 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6704 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6707 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6708 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6709 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6710 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6714 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6716 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6717 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6718 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6719 multiple binary packages.
6720 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6721 should rebuild them with this version.
6722 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6726 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6729 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6733 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6735 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6736 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6740 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6742 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6743 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6744 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6745 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6746 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6747 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6748 debian/README.debian.
6749 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6750 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6751 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6752 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6753 in a few situations.)
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6757 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6763 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6765 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6769 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6772 * Fixed several man pages.
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6776 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6779 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6780 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6784 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6786 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6787 is ready for general use.
6788 * Added man pages for all commands.
6789 * Multiple binary package support.
6790 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6791 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6792 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6794 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6795 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6796 auto-installed as parameters.
6797 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6799 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6802 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6803 the package build directory it is to act on.
6804 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6805 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6806 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6810 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6812 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6813 ready to replace debstd.
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400