1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation.
7 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
8 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
9 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
10 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
11 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
15 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
21 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
25 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
27 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
31 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
33 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
34 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
35 introduced by the fix to #527990.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
39 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
42 changes are planned for that mode.
43 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
44 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
45 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
46 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
47 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
48 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
49 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
50 (genesis) still uses them.
51 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
52 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
53 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
54 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
55 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
56 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
57 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
58 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
59 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
60 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
61 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
62 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
63 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
64 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
65 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
66 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
67 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
68 commands. (See #570039)
69 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
71 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
76 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
80 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
81 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
82 in control file or debhelper config files.
83 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
87 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
90 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
91 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
95 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
98 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
102 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
105 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
106 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
110 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Updated French translation.
113 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
114 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
115 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
116 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
118 * Typo. Closes: #571968
119 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
120 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
121 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
122 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
123 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
124 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
125 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
126 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
127 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
129 * dh: Improve documentation.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
133 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
135 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
136 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
137 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
141 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
144 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
148 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
151 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
155 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
158 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
159 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
160 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
161 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
162 options that they do not support.
163 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
164 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
165 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
166 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
167 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
168 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
173 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
177 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
178 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
179 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
180 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
181 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
182 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
183 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
184 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
185 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
192 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
193 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
194 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
195 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
199 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Typo. Closes: #558654
202 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
203 installed. Closes: #558782
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
207 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
210 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
211 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
212 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
213 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
214 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
218 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
220 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
221 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
222 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
223 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
227 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
230 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
231 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
237 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
241 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
243 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
244 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
245 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
246 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
247 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
248 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
249 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
250 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
251 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
252 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
253 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
254 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
255 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
256 time soon.) Closes: #554509
257 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
259 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
260 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
261 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
262 document id. Closes: #555677
263 * Typo. Closes: #555659
264 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
265 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
266 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
267 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
269 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
270 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
271 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
276 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
279 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
280 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
281 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
282 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
283 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
284 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
285 translation (#494300 part 2)
288 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
290 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
291 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
292 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
293 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
294 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
298 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
301 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
302 (It was only run once due to logging.)
303 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
304 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
305 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
306 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
307 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
308 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
309 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
310 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
311 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
312 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
316 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
320 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
323 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
324 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
328 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
331 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
332 flag with arch all/any packages.
333 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
334 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
335 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
336 situation. Closes: #540794
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
340 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
344 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
345 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
346 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
347 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
348 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
351 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
352 the default. Closes: #538201
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
357 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
361 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
362 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
363 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
364 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
365 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
367 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
368 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
369 * Above Closes: #491117
370 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
375 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
381 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
382 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
383 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
387 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
390 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
391 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
392 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
393 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
394 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
399 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
402 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
403 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
407 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
409 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
413 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
415 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
416 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
418 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
419 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
420 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
424 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
426 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
427 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
431 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
437 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
439 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
440 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
441 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
446 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
448 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
452 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
455 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
456 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
457 created by using `python' first during build and install.
459 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
464 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
466 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
470 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
472 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
473 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
477 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
479 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
483 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
485 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
489 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
491 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
492 contributed by Modestas Vainius
493 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
494 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
495 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
496 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
497 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
498 that support it. Closes: #480577
499 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
500 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
501 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
503 - Adds support for cmake.
504 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
505 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
507 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
509 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
510 that use them. The options are:
511 --sourcedir, --destdir
512 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
513 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
514 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
515 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
516 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
520 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
526 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
529 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
530 default. Closes: #537140
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
534 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
537 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
538 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
542 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
545 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
549 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
552 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
559 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
561 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
562 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
563 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
567 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
570 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
571 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
572 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
576 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
579 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
580 warning or deprecation message.
581 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
582 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
583 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
584 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
585 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
586 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
587 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
588 Closes: #534639, #357434
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
592 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
598 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
601 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
602 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
603 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
604 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
606 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
607 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
608 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
612 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
625 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
628 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
632 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
636 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
637 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
639 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
640 file support. Closes: #494914
641 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
645 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
648 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
649 parameters. Closes: #527256
650 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
651 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
652 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
656 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
660 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
661 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
662 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
669 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
670 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
671 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
675 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
678 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
679 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
681 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
682 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
683 by triggers). Closes: #521181
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
687 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
691 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
695 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
698 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
699 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
700 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
701 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
706 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
712 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
715 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
716 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
717 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
718 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
719 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
721 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
722 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
723 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
724 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
725 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
726 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
730 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
733 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
734 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
735 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
736 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
737 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
739 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
743 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
745 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
749 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
751 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
752 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
753 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
754 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
755 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
756 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
757 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
758 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
759 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
760 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
761 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
765 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
767 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
768 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
770 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
771 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
772 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
773 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
775 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
776 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
780 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
782 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
783 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
784 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
785 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
786 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
787 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
788 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
790 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
791 that uses them. Affected options are:
792 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
793 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
794 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
795 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
796 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
797 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
798 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
799 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
800 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
801 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
802 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
803 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
807 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
814 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
820 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
822 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
823 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
825 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
826 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
827 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
828 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
829 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
831 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
833 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
834 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
835 rules (see bug #509756).
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
839 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
845 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
846 * Typo. Closes: #493062
847 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
848 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
852 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
855 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
856 empty files. Closes: #490937
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
860 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
866 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
873 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
876 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
877 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
878 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
879 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
886 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
887 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
888 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
889 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
893 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
896 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
897 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
898 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
899 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
900 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
904 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
911 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
913 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
914 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
915 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
916 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
917 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
918 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
919 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
920 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
921 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
922 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
926 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
929 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
930 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
931 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
932 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
934 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
935 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
936 breaking backwards compatibility.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
940 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
943 message in perl 5.10.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
947 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
953 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Convert copyright file to new format.
956 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
960 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
963 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
967 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
970 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
971 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
972 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
973 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
974 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
975 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
976 logging by dh_listpackages.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
980 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
983 run and there are no packages of that type.
984 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
985 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
986 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
987 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
989 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
990 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
994 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
996 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
997 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
998 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1002 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1005 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1006 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1008 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1009 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1010 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1011 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1012 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1013 planned but not yet implemented.)
1014 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1015 if the Makefile has such a target.
1016 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1017 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1018 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1019 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1020 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1021 but not yet implemented.)
1022 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1023 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1024 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1025 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1026 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1028 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1030 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1031 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1033 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1034 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1035 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1040 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1043 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1044 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1048 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1050 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1051 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1052 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1056 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1062 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1068 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1071 just those installed by the program.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1075 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1078 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1079 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1083 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1086 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1087 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1088 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1089 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1093 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1096 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1097 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1101 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1104 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1105 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1109 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1112 with policy. Closes: #461392
1113 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1114 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1115 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1116 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1117 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1121 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1124 Closes: #460340, #460351
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1128 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1131 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1132 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1133 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1134 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1138 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1141 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1142 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1143 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1144 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1145 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1146 package build directory won't work.
1147 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1148 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1149 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1150 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1151 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1152 mode. Closes: #459426
1153 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1161 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1165 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1169 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1170 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1171 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1172 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1173 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1174 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1178 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1181 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1182 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1183 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1184 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1188 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1191 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1192 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1193 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1194 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1195 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1199 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1202 debian/package.triggers files.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1206 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1209 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1213 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1216 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1217 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1218 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1219 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1224 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1227 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1231 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1234 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1235 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1237 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1246 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1247 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1248 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1252 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1259 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1266 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1269 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1271 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1272 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1273 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1275 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1276 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1277 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1281 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1284 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1285 * Update urls to web page.
1286 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1287 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1288 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1289 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1296 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1297 - typo in alternatives call
1298 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1300 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1301 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1305 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1308 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1313 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1319 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1325 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1328 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1330 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1331 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1332 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1333 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1334 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1335 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1336 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1337 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1338 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1339 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1340 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1344 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1347 package install. Closes: #415717
1348 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1349 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1350 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1351 script and then remove the python files.
1352 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1353 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1354 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1355 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1356 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1357 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1358 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1359 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1360 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1361 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1362 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1363 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1364 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1368 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Correct typo in french translation
1374 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1375 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1377 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1379 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1380 Closes: #406921, #381940
1381 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1383 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1384 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1385 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1386 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1387 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1388 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1389 specified). Closes: #381851
1390 * Misc minor changes.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1394 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1401 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1402 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1406 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1412 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1413 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1416 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1417 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1419 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1420 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1421 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1422 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1426 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1429 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1432 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1436 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1448 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1449 a difficult situation.
1450 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1451 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1452 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1453 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1454 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1455 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1456 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1457 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1458 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1459 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1463 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Non-maintainer upload.
1466 * Update of dh_python
1467 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1468 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1470 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1471 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1472 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1473 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1474 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1476 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1478 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Non-maintainer upload.
1481 * Update of dh_python
1482 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1483 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1484 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1485 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1486 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1487 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1488 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1489 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1490 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1491 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1493 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1494 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1495 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1496 the not too-distant future).
1497 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1498 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1499 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1500 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1501 thus made the build fail.
1503 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1505 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Non-maintainer upload.
1508 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1510 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1512 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1515 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1516 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1517 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1518 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1519 package. Closes: #301424
1520 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1521 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1522 fonts). Closes: #372686
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1526 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1532 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1533 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1534 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1535 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1536 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1537 above, but already depends on that.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1541 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1544 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1545 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1546 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1547 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1548 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1552 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1558 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1564 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1565 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1569 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1572 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1576 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1580 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1581 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1582 new version (0.24.1).
1583 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1584 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1587 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1588 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1589 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1590 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1591 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1592 new directory on their own.
1593 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1594 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1598 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1601 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1602 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1603 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1604 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1608 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1611 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1612 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1613 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1614 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1615 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1619 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1625 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1629 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1630 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1634 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1635 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1639 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1641 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1642 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1644 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1645 ignored. Closes: #337664
1647 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1658 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1663 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1664 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1665 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1666 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1667 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1668 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1669 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1673 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1676 version. Closes: #350607
1677 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1678 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1679 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1680 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1687 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1688 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1689 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1693 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1709 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1713 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1716 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1717 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1718 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1719 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1720 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1721 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1725 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1728 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1729 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1737 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1744 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1748 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1751 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1752 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1753 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1754 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1755 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1756 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1764 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1765 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1766 link. Closes: #346405
1767 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1769 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1770 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1771 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1772 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1773 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1774 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1775 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1779 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1786 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1795 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1802 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1811 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1812 installed. Closes: #342033
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1816 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1819 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1820 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1821 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1826 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1832 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1838 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1842 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1843 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1844 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1851 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1863 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1869 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1872 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1873 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1874 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1875 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1876 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1877 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1878 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1880 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1887 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1888 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1895 in standard man dirs.
1896 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1909 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1928 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1931 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1932 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1939 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1940 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1941 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1943 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1945 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1960 mode. Closes: #324161
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1967 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1968 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1969 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1970 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1978 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1979 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1980 is necesary for sanity.
1981 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1982 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1989 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1990 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1994 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1997 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2010 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2011 released, so use at your own risk.
2012 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2013 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2015 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2016 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2017 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2018 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2019 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2020 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2021 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2022 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2023 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2024 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2025 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2026 including twice per config file line now..
2027 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2028 and simplfy the rules file.
2029 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2030 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2031 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2033 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2034 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2041 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2048 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2055 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2062 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2063 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2064 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2065 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2066 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2067 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2074 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2075 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2076 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2084 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2085 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2090 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2093 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2094 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2095 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2103 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2104 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2105 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2125 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2126 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2127 unknown. Closes: #282924
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Spanish man page updates.
2141 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2155 * dh_desktop: reindent
2156 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2157 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2169 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2175 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2179 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2182 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2183 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2187 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2209 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2216 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2217 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2218 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2219 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2220 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2221 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2223 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2224 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2225 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2226 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2227 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2228 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2229 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2230 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2231 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2232 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2233 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2234 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2235 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2236 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2237 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2238 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2242 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2252 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2256 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2259 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2266 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2273 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2283 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2289 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2295 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2298 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2299 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2300 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2304 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2307 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2314 but occasionally right and necessary.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2321 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2322 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2323 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2324 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2325 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2332 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2334 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2335 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2336 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2337 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2338 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2339 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2340 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2341 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2342 postinst scripts for udebs.
2343 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2347 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2350 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2352 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2353 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2363 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2370 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2377 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2380 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2384 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2387 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2391 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2394 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2397 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2398 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2402 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2411 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2415 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2418 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2419 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2420 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2422 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2424 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2425 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2426 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2430 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2433 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2441 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2442 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2443 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2454 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2463 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2464 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2465 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2466 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2467 associated -dbg packages.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2474 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2481 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2488 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2495 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2503 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2510 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2518 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2526 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2527 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2528 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2529 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2530 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2531 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2532 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2533 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2534 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2535 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2542 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2550 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2551 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2558 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2559 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2567 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2574 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2581 out section number. Closes: #204731
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2607 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2608 removal. Closes: #204286
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2615 renaming. Closes: #203548
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2622 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2623 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2639 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2645 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2648 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2649 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2650 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2657 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2658 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2678 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2686 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2693 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2695 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2696 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2703 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2711 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2723 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2730 it break hard links (see #188663).
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2737 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2751 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2752 debconf-mergetemplates
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2756 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2759 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2763 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2766 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2773 * Update debhelper(1).
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2777 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2780 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2781 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2782 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2783 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2784 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2791 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2792 the shell. Closes: #178524
2793 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2797 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2800 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2804 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2807 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2814 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2815 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2816 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2817 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2822 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2825 files from installation.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2829 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2832 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2833 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2837 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2840 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2844 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2847 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2851 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2857 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2863 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2867 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2868 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2870 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2874 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2877 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2878 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2879 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2880 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2887 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2891 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2894 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2895 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2899 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2903 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2908 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2918 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2919 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2920 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2928 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2929 practice. Closes: #163303
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2949 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2951 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2952 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2953 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2954 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2955 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2962 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2973 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2983 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2988 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3016 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3017 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3018 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3019 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3037 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3040 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3041 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3045 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3048 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3049 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3050 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3051 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3052 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3059 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3061 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3066 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3069 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3076 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3077 right thing. Closes: #150644
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Stupid, evil typo.
3084 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3098 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3099 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3110 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3113 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3120 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3121 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3126 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3129 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3142 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3143 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Removing perl warning message.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3162 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3163 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3164 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3165 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3166 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3167 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3168 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3169 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3186 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3189 debconf-mergetemplate.
3190 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3191 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3198 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3199 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3200 dh_install, which ...
3201 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3202 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3203 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3204 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3205 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3206 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3207 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3208 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3209 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3210 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3211 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3212 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3213 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3214 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3215 other minor changes.
3216 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3217 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3218 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3219 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3220 course there's -X ..)
3221 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3222 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3223 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3225 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3226 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3227 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3228 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3229 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3234 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3240 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3243 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3247 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3253 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3259 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3265 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3271 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3274 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3275 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3276 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3277 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3279 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3280 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3284 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3290 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3293 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3297 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3300 upset. Closes: #131322
3302 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3304 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3307 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3308 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3309 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3310 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3311 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3312 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3313 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3314 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3315 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3316 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3317 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3318 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3319 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3320 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3321 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3323 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3327 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3330 - Better indenting of generated code.
3331 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3335 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3339 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3340 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3341 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3342 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3343 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3344 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3345 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3349 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3352 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3356 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3359 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3360 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3361 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3362 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3363 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3364 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3365 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3366 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3367 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3368 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3369 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3370 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3371 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3372 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3373 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3378 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3384 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3387 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3388 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3392 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3395 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3396 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3400 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3406 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3409 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3410 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3411 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3412 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3413 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3418 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3424 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3427 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3434 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3439 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3445 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3448 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3452 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3458 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3462 Also some indentation fixes.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3466 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3469 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3470 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3471 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3472 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3473 Closes: #106514, #85520
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3477 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3483 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3495 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3501 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3507 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3510 change it in debhelper v4..
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3514 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3520 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3523 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3527 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3530 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3534 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3540 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3543 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3544 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3545 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3546 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3547 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3548 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3549 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3550 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3551 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3552 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3553 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3554 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3558 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3561 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3565 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3572 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3575 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3576 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3577 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3578 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3579 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3580 program those options go to. So, for example,
3581 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3582 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3583 something complex. Closes: #89311
3584 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3591 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3592 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3593 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3597 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3600 through loop. Closes: #98598
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Missing semi-colon.
3607 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3608 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3615 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3616 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3617 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3621 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3624 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3625 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3632 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3636 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3639 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3640 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3644 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3647 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3648 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3649 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3653 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3656 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3657 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3658 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3662 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3665 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3669 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3675 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3681 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3687 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3693 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3696 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3700 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3703 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3704 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3705 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3706 followed. Closes: #85483
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3710 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3712 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3713 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3714 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3718 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3721 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3722 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3723 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3724 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3725 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3726 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3727 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3728 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3729 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3730 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3731 Closes: #88464, #77743
3732 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3733 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3734 us to deal with that gracefully.
3735 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3737 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3738 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3739 a while, Closes: #51225
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3743 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3749 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3752 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3756 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3760 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3765 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3768 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3769 don't make packlist files.
3770 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3771 debhelper coding standards.
3772 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3773 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3777 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3780 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3784 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3787 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3788 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3789 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3790 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3791 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3792 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3793 but is mildly deprecated.
3794 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3795 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3796 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3797 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3798 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3799 switching to statoverrides..
3800 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3801 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3802 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3803 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3804 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3805 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3807 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3808 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3809 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3810 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3811 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3812 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3813 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3814 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3815 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3817 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3818 variable names, pod man pages).
3819 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3820 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3821 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3822 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3823 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3824 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3825 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3845 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3849 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3851 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3852 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3853 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3859 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3860 they were previously ignored.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3866 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3867 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3873 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3874 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3875 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3881 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3887 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3888 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3894 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3895 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3896 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3897 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3898 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3899 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3900 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3901 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3902 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3903 it is an obsolete program.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3909 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3917 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3923 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3925 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3927 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3929 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * typo: Closes, #78567
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3960 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3961 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3962 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3963 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3964 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3971 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3976 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3979 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3980 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3981 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3982 backwards-compatibility.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3989 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3990 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3991 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3992 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3993 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3994 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3996 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3997 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3998 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4000 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4002 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4003 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4004 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4005 should now be raised to severity important..
4006 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4007 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4014 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4047 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4048 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4049 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4050 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4063 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4064 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4065 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4066 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4067 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4068 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4076 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4089 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4097 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4098 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4099 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4100 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4108 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4111 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4114 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4115 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4118 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4120 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4121 the TODO entry about it.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4135 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4136 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4143 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4144 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4145 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4146 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4166 (this appears to be logal).
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4173 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4174 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4175 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4176 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4189 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4190 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4191 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4192 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4205 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4219 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4220 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4221 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4242 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4243 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4244 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4245 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4246 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4247 notice until v2 is complete.
4248 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4249 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4250 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4251 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4252 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4253 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4255 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4256 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4257 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4258 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4278 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4292 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4293 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4294 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4295 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4303 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4304 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4305 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4313 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4314 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4321 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4328 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4342 depend on the build and install targets.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4349 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4375 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4376 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4377 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4378 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4379 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4380 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4382 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4383 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4384 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4385 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4386 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4387 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4388 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4404 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4407 right place. Closes: #55065
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4421 * Copyright date updates.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4428 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4433 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4439 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4446 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4452 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4467 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4468 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4469 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4470 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4471 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4472 bits until all files have been registered.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4476 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installmanpages:
4479 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4480 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4481 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4482 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4483 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4484 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4485 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4486 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4487 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4488 otherwise change the result at all.
4490 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4491 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4492 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4493 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4494 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4505 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4508 act on files that don't exist.
4509 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4510 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4511 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4513 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4514 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4515 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4516 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4520 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4535 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4539 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4542 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4544 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4545 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4546 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4550 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4553 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4554 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4555 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4556 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4557 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4558 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4559 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4561 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4563 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4574 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4589 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4608 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4609 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4610 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4611 I made some changes, though:
4612 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4613 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4614 that is a clear violation of policy.
4615 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4616 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4617 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4618 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4619 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4620 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4621 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4622 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4623 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4625 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4638 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4645 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4646 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4667 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4668 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4669 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4670 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4671 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4672 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4673 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4687 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4688 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4701 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4708 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4709 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4715 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4724 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4731 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4732 for the dependancies to be generated.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4736 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4739 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4746 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4747 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4748 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4756 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4757 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4767 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4773 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4776 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4789 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4790 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4791 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4792 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4793 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4794 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4795 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4796 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4797 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4798 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4799 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4800 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4807 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4808 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4810 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4811 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4812 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4813 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4814 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4815 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4817 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4818 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4825 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4839 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4847 for building debhelper.
4848 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4862 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4869 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4870 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4871 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4872 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4873 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4874 it's always available.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4881 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4882 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4883 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4887 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4890 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4891 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4895 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4904 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4917 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4918 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4919 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4926 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4931 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4934 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4935 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4937 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4938 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4942 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4957 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4961 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4964 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4965 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4967 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4974 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4975 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4976 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4980 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4983 things if CDPATH is set.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4996 seems to make sense for the transition.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5000 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5003 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5011 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5012 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5019 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5026 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5027 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5028 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5029 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5042 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5043 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5044 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5045 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5046 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5047 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5048 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5049 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5050 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5051 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5056 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5059 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5060 * README: mention doc/v2
5061 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5062 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5068 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5069 be using this script RSN.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5076 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5077 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5078 more than 1 init script.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5085 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Changed perl version detection.
5092 * Changed call to find.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5099 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5101 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Really include dh_installpam.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5115 * Wrote man page for same.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5122 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5123 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5138 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5139 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5140 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5141 x bit was being set!
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5148 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5149 well. (Closes: 38900)
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5156 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5157 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5183 help from Julian Gilbey.
5184 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5185 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5186 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5187 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5188 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5189 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5190 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5223 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5230 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5237 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5250 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5254 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5269 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5270 may be deleted. (#35845)
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Various man page enhancements.
5277 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5285 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5286 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5293 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5294 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5295 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5297 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5298 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Another very minor typo fix.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Very minor typo fix.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5324 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5325 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5338 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5339 variables properly (#34850).
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5352 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5353 (automatically generated by build process).
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5359 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5366 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5367 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5369 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5376 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * README: minor typo fix.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5389 leave it at that. :-)
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5393 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5405 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5408 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5409 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5410 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5417 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5424 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5431 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5432 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5433 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5434 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5441 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5442 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5443 Craig Small for spotting this.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5450 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5451 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5464 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5468 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5470 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5471 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5472 working on the last version of debhelper.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5479 being made. (#23255)
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5483 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5492 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5499 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5500 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5501 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5502 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5506 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5509 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5510 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5511 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5512 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5514 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5515 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5517 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5537 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5538 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5539 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5540 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5541 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5542 suidregister actually supports it.
5543 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5544 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5548 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5555 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5558 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5559 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5560 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5561 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5562 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5563 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5564 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5568 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5570 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5571 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5578 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5579 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5580 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5581 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5585 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5588 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5590 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5591 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5592 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5593 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5594 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5595 effect, either. (#30118)
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5608 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5609 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5613 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5619 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5622 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5623 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5624 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5625 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5632 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5633 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5637 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5646 packages, painlessly.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5668 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * The perl conversion is complete.
5672 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5674 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5675 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5676 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5681 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5684 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5685 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5686 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5693 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5695 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5697 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5698 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5702 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5705 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5706 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5710 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5716 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5719 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5720 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5721 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5722 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5723 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5727 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5730 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5731 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5732 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5733 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5740 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5747 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5748 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5749 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5750 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5751 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5752 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5753 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5754 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5758 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5764 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5767 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5768 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5769 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5774 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5777 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5784 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5788 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5791 sections of shared libraries.
5792 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5793 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5794 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5795 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5796 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5797 things you don't want them to.
5798 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5799 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5803 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5806 shared libraries. (#26414)
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5810 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5812 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5813 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5814 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5815 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5819 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5823 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5825 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5826 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5827 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5828 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5829 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5836 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5840 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5843 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5844 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5849 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5852 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5856 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5859 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5860 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5861 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5862 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5863 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5865 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5866 remove debian/files properly.
5867 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5868 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5869 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5870 * Removed bogus menu file.
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5874 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5877 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5884 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5885 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5886 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5887 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5888 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5889 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5893 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5896 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5897 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5898 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5899 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5903 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5910 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5913 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5914 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5916 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5917 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5918 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5919 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5920 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5921 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5928 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5929 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5930 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5931 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5932 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5933 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5934 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5935 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5936 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5937 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5938 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5939 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5940 passed any switches.
5941 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5945 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5948 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5949 at all for a long while.
5950 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5951 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5952 large chunks in the process.
5953 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5954 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5955 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5960 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5963 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5965 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5970 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5973 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5974 that don't always have the same files in them.
5975 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5976 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5977 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5981 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5985 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5986 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5987 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5988 updating 27 man pages.
5989 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5990 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5991 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5992 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5993 programs act on. (#25247)
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5997 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6001 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6002 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6003 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6004 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6005 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6006 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6011 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6018 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6025 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6028 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6032 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6038 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6041 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6042 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6043 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6044 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6045 package by accident.
6046 * Is version 1.0 next?
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6050 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6053 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6054 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6061 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6062 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6063 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6064 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6065 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6067 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6072 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6075 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6076 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6080 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6083 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6087 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6090 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6091 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6096 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6102 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6105 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6106 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6111 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6117 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6120 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6121 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6122 past week. Thanks, guys!
6124 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6125 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6126 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6127 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6128 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6129 would do in the same situation.
6130 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6131 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6133 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6135 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6136 permissions changed.
6137 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6138 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6139 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6140 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6141 files are treated identically.
6142 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6143 * Minor man page fixes.
6144 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6145 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6146 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6150 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6153 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6154 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6155 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6156 use -X multiple times, too.
6157 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6158 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6162 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6165 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6166 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6170 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6173 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6177 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6180 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6181 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6182 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6183 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6184 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6185 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6186 shape if you're starting a new package.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6190 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6193 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6197 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6200 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6201 because of missing symlinks.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6205 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6214 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6215 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6216 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6217 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6218 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6220 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6221 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6227 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6228 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6229 to be changed after the fact :-)
6230 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6234 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6236 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6237 no version string after the -V.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6241 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6243 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6244 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6249 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6252 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6256 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6259 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6260 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6261 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6262 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6263 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6264 I always welcome corrections!
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6268 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6274 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6277 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6278 * Documented this new switch.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6282 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6285 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6286 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6287 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6288 no packages use the old behavior.
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6292 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6295 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6296 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6300 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6303 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6307 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6313 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6316 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6320 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6323 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6324 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6325 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6329 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6335 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6338 into the source package by accident.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6342 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6345 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6346 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6347 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6348 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6349 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6350 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6355 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6359 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6360 inspired to implement some of it.
6361 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6365 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6368 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6372 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6375 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6376 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6380 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6383 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6384 have done.) (#17598)
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6388 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6394 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6400 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6403 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6407 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6410 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6411 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6415 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6418 argument processor in perl.
6419 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6420 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6421 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6422 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6426 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6429 type directories. (#16933)
6430 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6431 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6432 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6433 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6434 are supported. (#16935)
6435 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6443 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6447 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6451 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6452 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6453 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6454 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6455 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6456 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6463 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6464 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6466 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6467 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6468 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6469 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6470 a given package, or -i or -a.
6471 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6472 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6473 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6474 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6475 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6476 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6477 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6478 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6479 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6481 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6482 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6483 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6490 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6491 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6496 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6499 does not have a section.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6506 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6507 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6508 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Fixed typo #16215.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6521 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6522 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6523 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6524 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6525 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6533 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6534 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6535 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6546 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6552 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6555 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6556 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6557 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6558 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6559 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6560 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6564 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6566 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6570 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6573 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6577 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6580 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6581 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6582 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6589 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6593 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6595 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6599 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6602 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6606 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6609 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6613 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6622 postinst, postrm, etc.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6635 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6636 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6637 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6638 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6639 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6646 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6647 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6651 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6654 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6661 installing package files into.
6662 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6671 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6681 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6683 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6684 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6688 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6691 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6692 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6693 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6694 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6698 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6700 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6701 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6702 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6703 multiple binary packages.
6704 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6705 should rebuild them with this version.
6706 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6710 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6712 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6713 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6717 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6720 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6724 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6727 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6728 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6729 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6730 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6731 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6732 debian/README.debian.
6733 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6734 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6735 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6736 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6737 in a few situations.)
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6741 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6747 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6753 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6755 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6756 * Fixed several man pages.
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6760 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6763 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6764 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6768 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6770 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6771 is ready for general use.
6772 * Added man pages for all commands.
6773 * Multiple binary package support.
6774 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6775 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6776 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6778 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6779 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6780 auto-installed as parameters.
6781 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6783 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6786 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6787 the package build directory it is to act on.
6788 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6789 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6790 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6794 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6796 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6797 ready to replace debstd.
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400