1 debhelper (8.9.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture for build directory name.
4 Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
5 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:26:08 -0400
9 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
12 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
13 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
15 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
16 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
17 to dh. Closes: #643069
18 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
19 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
23 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
26 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
27 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
28 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
29 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
31 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
32 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
33 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
35 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
36 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
37 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
38 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
39 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
40 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
41 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
42 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
43 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
44 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
45 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
46 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
47 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
48 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
49 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
53 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
60 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
63 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
65 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
71 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
74 Use override targets instead.
75 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
76 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
77 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
78 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
79 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
80 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
81 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
82 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
83 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
84 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
89 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
92 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
96 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
102 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
105 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
106 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
107 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
108 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
109 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
110 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
114 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
117 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
118 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
119 the targets. Closes: #629139
120 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
121 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
122 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
123 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
124 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
125 are already set to other values will not be changed.
127 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
128 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
129 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
130 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
131 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
136 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
142 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
145 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
146 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
150 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
153 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
154 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
155 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
156 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
157 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
158 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
159 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
164 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
168 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
169 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
171 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
172 changes may be added to that mode.
173 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
174 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
175 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
176 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
177 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
178 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
179 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
180 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
181 * Removed old example rules files.
182 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
186 * update french translation.
187 * Fix french misspelling.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
191 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
194 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
198 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
201 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
202 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
203 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
204 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
205 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
206 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
207 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
211 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
214 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
215 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
216 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
217 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
218 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
219 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
221 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
222 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
223 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
224 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
225 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
226 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
227 (Thanks, David Prévot)
228 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
229 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
230 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
231 target fails. Closes: #601037
232 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
234 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
235 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
236 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
237 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
238 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
240 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
241 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
243 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
244 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
245 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
247 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
249 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
252 * update french translation.
253 * Fix french misspelling.
254 * French translation update after massive man page typography
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
258 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
264 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
268 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
270 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
274 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
276 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
277 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
278 introduced by the fix to #527990.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
282 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
285 changes are planned for that mode.
286 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
287 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
288 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
289 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
290 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
291 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
292 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
293 (genesis) still uses them.
294 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
295 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
296 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
297 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
298 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
299 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
300 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
301 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
302 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
303 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
304 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
305 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
306 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
307 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
308 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
309 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
310 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
311 commands. (See #570039)
312 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
314 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
319 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
323 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
324 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
325 in control file or debhelper config files.
326 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
330 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
333 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
334 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
338 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
341 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
345 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
348 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
349 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
353 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Updated French translation.
356 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
357 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
358 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
359 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
361 * Typo. Closes: #571968
362 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
363 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
364 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
365 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
366 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
367 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
368 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
369 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
370 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
372 * dh: Improve documentation.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
376 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
378 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
379 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
380 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
384 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
387 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
391 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
394 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
398 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
401 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
402 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
403 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
404 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
405 options that they do not support.
406 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
407 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
408 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
409 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
410 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
411 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
416 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
420 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
421 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
422 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
423 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
424 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
425 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
426 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
427 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
428 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
432 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
435 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
436 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
437 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
438 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
442 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Typo. Closes: #558654
445 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
446 installed. Closes: #558782
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
450 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
453 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
454 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
455 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
456 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
457 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
461 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
463 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
464 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
465 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
466 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
470 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
473 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
474 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
478 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
480 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
484 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
486 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
487 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
488 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
489 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
490 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
491 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
492 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
493 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
494 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
495 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
496 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
497 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
498 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
499 time soon.) Closes: #554509
500 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
502 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
503 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
504 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
505 document id. Closes: #555677
506 * Typo. Closes: #555659
507 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
508 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
509 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
510 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
512 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
513 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
514 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
519 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
522 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
523 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
524 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
525 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
526 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
527 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
528 translation (#494300 part 2)
531 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
533 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
534 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
535 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
536 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
537 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
541 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
544 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
545 (It was only run once due to logging.)
546 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
547 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
548 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
549 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
550 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
551 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
552 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
553 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
554 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
555 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
559 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
563 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
566 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
567 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
571 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
574 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
575 flag with arch all/any packages.
576 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
577 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
578 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
579 situation. Closes: #540794
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
583 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
587 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
588 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
589 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
590 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
591 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
594 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
595 the default. Closes: #538201
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
600 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
604 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
605 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
606 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
607 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
608 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
610 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
611 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
612 * Above Closes: #491117
613 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
618 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
624 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
625 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
626 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
630 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
633 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
634 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
635 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
636 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
637 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
642 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
645 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
646 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
650 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
652 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
656 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
658 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
659 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
661 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
662 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
663 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
667 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
669 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
670 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
674 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
680 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
682 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
683 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
684 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
689 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
691 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
695 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
698 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
699 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
700 created by using `python' first during build and install.
702 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
707 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
709 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
713 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
715 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
716 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
720 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
722 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
726 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
728 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
732 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
734 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
735 contributed by Modestas Vainius
736 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
737 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
738 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
739 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
740 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
741 that support it. Closes: #480577
742 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
743 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
744 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
746 - Adds support for cmake.
747 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
748 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
750 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
752 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
753 that use them. The options are:
754 --sourcedir, --destdir
755 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
756 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
757 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
758 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
759 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
763 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
769 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
772 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
773 default. Closes: #537140
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
777 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
780 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
781 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
785 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
788 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
792 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
795 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
799 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
802 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
804 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
805 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
806 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
810 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
813 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
814 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
815 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
819 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
822 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
823 warning or deprecation message.
824 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
825 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
826 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
827 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
828 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
829 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
830 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
831 Closes: #534639, #357434
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
835 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
841 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
844 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
845 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
846 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
847 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
849 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
850 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
851 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
855 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
861 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
868 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
871 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
875 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
879 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
880 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
882 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
883 file support. Closes: #494914
884 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
888 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
891 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
892 parameters. Closes: #527256
893 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
894 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
895 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
899 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
903 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
904 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
905 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
909 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
912 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
913 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
914 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
918 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
921 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
922 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
924 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
925 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
926 by triggers). Closes: #521181
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
930 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
934 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
938 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
941 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
942 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
943 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
944 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
949 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
955 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
958 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
959 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
960 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
961 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
962 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
964 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
965 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
966 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
967 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
968 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
969 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
973 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
976 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
977 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
978 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
979 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
980 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
982 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
986 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
988 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
992 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
994 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
995 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
996 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
997 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
998 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
999 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1000 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1001 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1002 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1003 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1004 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1008 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1010 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1011 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1013 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1014 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1015 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1016 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1018 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1019 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1023 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1026 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1027 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1028 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1029 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1030 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1031 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1033 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1034 that uses them. Affected options are:
1035 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1036 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1037 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1038 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1039 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1040 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1041 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1042 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1043 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1044 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1045 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1046 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1050 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1057 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1063 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1066 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1068 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1069 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1070 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1071 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1072 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1073 than the old method.
1074 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1076 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1077 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1078 rules (see bug #509756).
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1082 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1088 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1089 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1090 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1091 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1098 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1099 empty files. Closes: #490937
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1103 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1116 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1119 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1120 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1121 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1122 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1127 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1129 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1130 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1131 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1132 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1136 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1139 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1140 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1141 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1142 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1143 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1147 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1154 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1157 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1158 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1159 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1160 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1161 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1162 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1163 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1164 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1165 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1169 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1172 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1173 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1174 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1175 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1177 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1178 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1179 breaking backwards compatibility.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1183 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1186 message in perl 5.10.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1190 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1196 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1199 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1203 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1206 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1210 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1213 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1214 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1215 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1216 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1217 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1218 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1219 logging by dh_listpackages.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1223 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1226 run and there are no packages of that type.
1227 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1228 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1229 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1230 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1232 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1233 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1237 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1240 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1241 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1245 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1248 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1249 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1251 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1252 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1253 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1254 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1255 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1256 planned but not yet implemented.)
1257 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1258 if the Makefile has such a target.
1259 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1260 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1261 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1262 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1263 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1264 but not yet implemented.)
1265 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1266 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1267 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1268 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1269 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1271 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1273 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1274 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1276 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1277 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1278 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1283 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1286 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1287 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1291 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1293 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1294 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1295 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1299 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1305 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1311 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1314 just those installed by the program.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1318 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1321 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1322 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1326 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1329 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1330 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1331 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1332 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1336 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1339 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1340 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1344 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1347 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1348 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1352 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1355 with policy. Closes: #461392
1356 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1357 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1358 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1359 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1360 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1364 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1367 Closes: #460340, #460351
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1371 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1374 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1375 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1376 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1377 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1381 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1384 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1385 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1386 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1387 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1388 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1389 package build directory won't work.
1390 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1391 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1392 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1393 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1394 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1395 mode. Closes: #459426
1396 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1401 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1404 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1408 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1412 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1413 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1414 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1415 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1416 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1417 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1421 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1424 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1425 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1426 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1427 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1431 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1434 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1435 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1436 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1437 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1438 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1445 debian/package.triggers files.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1449 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1452 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1456 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1459 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1460 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1461 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1462 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1470 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1477 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1478 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1480 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1485 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1489 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1490 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1491 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1495 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1502 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1509 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1512 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1514 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1515 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1516 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1518 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1519 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1520 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1524 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1527 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1528 * Update urls to web page.
1529 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1530 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1531 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1532 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1536 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1539 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1540 - typo in alternatives call
1541 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1543 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1544 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1548 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1551 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1556 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1562 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1568 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1571 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1573 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1574 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1575 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1576 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1577 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1578 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1579 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1580 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1581 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1582 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1583 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1587 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1590 package install. Closes: #415717
1591 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1592 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1593 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1594 script and then remove the python files.
1595 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1596 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1597 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1598 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1599 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1600 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1601 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1602 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1603 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1604 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1605 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1606 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1607 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1611 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Correct typo in french translation
1617 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1618 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1620 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1622 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1623 Closes: #406921, #381940
1624 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1626 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1627 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1628 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1629 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1630 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1631 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1632 specified). Closes: #381851
1633 * Misc minor changes.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1637 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1644 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1645 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1649 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1655 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1656 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1659 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1660 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1662 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1663 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1664 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1665 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1672 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1675 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1679 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1685 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1691 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1692 a difficult situation.
1693 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1694 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1695 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1696 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1697 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1698 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1699 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1700 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1701 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1702 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1706 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Non-maintainer upload.
1709 * Update of dh_python
1710 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1711 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1713 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1714 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1715 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1716 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1717 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1719 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1721 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Non-maintainer upload.
1724 * Update of dh_python
1725 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1726 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1727 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1728 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1729 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1730 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1731 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1732 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1733 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1734 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1736 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1737 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1738 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1739 the not too-distant future).
1740 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1741 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1742 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1743 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1744 thus made the build fail.
1746 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1748 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Non-maintainer upload.
1751 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1753 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1755 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1758 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1759 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1760 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1761 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1762 package. Closes: #301424
1763 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1764 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1765 fonts). Closes: #372686
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1769 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1775 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1776 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1777 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1778 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1779 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1780 above, but already depends on that.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1784 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1787 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1788 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1789 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1790 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1791 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1795 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1801 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1807 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1808 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1812 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1815 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1819 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1823 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1824 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1825 new version (0.24.1).
1826 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1827 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1830 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1831 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1832 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1833 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1834 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1835 new directory on their own.
1836 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1837 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1841 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1844 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1845 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1846 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1847 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1851 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1854 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1855 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1856 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1857 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1858 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1862 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1868 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1872 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1873 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1877 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1878 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1882 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1884 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1885 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1887 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1888 ignored. Closes: #337664
1890 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1895 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1901 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1906 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1907 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1908 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1909 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1910 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1911 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1912 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1916 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1919 version. Closes: #350607
1920 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1921 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1922 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1923 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1927 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1930 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1931 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1932 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1936 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1943 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1949 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1952 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1959 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1960 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1961 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1962 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1963 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1964 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1968 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1971 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1972 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1977 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1980 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1984 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1987 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1991 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1994 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1995 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1996 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1997 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1998 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1999 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2003 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2007 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2008 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2009 link. Closes: #346405
2010 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2012 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2013 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2014 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2015 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2016 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2017 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2018 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2022 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2029 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2035 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2038 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2042 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2045 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2050 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2054 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2055 installed. Closes: #342033
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2059 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2062 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2063 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2064 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2069 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2075 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2081 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2085 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2086 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2087 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2091 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2094 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2099 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2106 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2112 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2115 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2116 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2117 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2118 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2119 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2120 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2121 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2123 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2127 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2130 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2131 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2138 in standard man dirs.
2139 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2152 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2171 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2174 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2175 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2182 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2183 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2184 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2186 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2188 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2203 mode. Closes: #324161
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2210 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2211 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2212 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2213 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2221 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2222 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2223 is necesary for sanity.
2224 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2225 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2232 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2233 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2240 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2253 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2254 released, so use at your own risk.
2255 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2256 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2258 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2259 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2260 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2261 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2262 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2263 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2264 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2265 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2266 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2267 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2268 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2269 including twice per config file line now..
2270 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2271 and simplfy the rules file.
2272 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2273 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2274 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2276 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2277 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2284 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2291 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2298 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2305 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2306 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2307 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2308 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2309 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2310 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2317 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2318 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2319 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2327 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2328 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2336 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2337 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2338 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2346 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2347 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2348 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2368 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2369 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2370 unknown. Closes: #282924
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Spanish man page updates.
2384 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2398 * dh_desktop: reindent
2399 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2400 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2412 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2418 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2422 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2425 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2426 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2430 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2452 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2459 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2460 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2461 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2462 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2463 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2464 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2466 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2467 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2468 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2469 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2470 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2471 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2472 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2473 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2474 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2475 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2476 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2477 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2478 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2479 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2480 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2481 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2495 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2499 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2502 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2509 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2516 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2541 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2542 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2543 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2550 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2557 but occasionally right and necessary.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2564 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2565 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2566 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2567 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2568 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2575 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2577 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2578 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2579 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2580 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2581 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2582 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2583 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2584 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2585 postinst scripts for udebs.
2586 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2590 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2593 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2595 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2596 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2600 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2606 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2613 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2620 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2623 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2627 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2630 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2634 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2637 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2640 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2641 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2645 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2651 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2654 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2658 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2661 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2662 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2663 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2665 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2667 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2668 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2669 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2673 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2676 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2681 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2684 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2685 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2686 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2691 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2697 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2706 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2707 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2708 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2709 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2710 associated -dbg packages.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2717 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2724 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2731 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2738 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2746 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2753 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2761 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2769 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2770 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2771 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2772 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2773 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2774 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2775 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2776 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2777 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2778 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2785 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2793 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2794 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2801 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2802 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2810 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2817 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2824 out section number. Closes: #204731
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2850 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2851 removal. Closes: #204286
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2858 renaming. Closes: #203548
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2865 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2866 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2882 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2888 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2891 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2892 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2893 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2900 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2901 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2921 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2929 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2936 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2938 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2939 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2943 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2946 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2954 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2966 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2973 it break hard links (see #188663).
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2980 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2990 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2994 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2995 debconf-mergetemplates
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2999 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3002 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3006 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3009 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3013 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3016 * Update debhelper(1).
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3020 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3023 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3024 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3025 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3026 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3027 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3031 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3034 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3035 the shell. Closes: #178524
3036 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3040 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3043 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3047 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3050 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3054 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3057 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3058 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3059 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3060 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3065 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3068 files from installation.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3075 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3076 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3080 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3083 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3087 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3090 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3094 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3100 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3106 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3110 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3111 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3113 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3117 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3120 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3121 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3122 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3123 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3127 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3130 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3134 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3137 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3138 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3142 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3146 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3151 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3157 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3161 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3162 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3163 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3171 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3172 practice. Closes: #163303
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3176 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3182 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3192 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3194 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3195 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3196 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3197 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3198 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3202 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3205 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3216 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3223 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3226 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3231 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3237 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3243 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3249 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3256 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3259 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3260 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3261 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3262 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3267 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3280 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3283 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3284 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3288 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3291 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3292 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3293 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3294 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3295 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3299 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3302 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3304 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3309 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3312 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3316 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3319 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3320 right thing. Closes: #150644
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3324 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Stupid, evil typo.
3327 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3331 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3338 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3341 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3342 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3347 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3353 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3356 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3360 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3363 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3364 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3369 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3372 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3376 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3382 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3385 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3386 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3390 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3396 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Removing perl warning message.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3402 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3405 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3406 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3407 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3408 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3409 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3410 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3411 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3412 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3422 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3432 debconf-mergetemplate.
3433 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3434 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3438 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3441 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3442 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3443 dh_install, which ...
3444 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3445 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3446 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3447 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3448 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3449 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3450 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3451 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3452 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3453 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3454 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3455 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3456 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3457 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3458 other minor changes.
3459 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3460 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3461 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3462 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3463 course there's -X ..)
3464 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3465 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3466 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3468 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3469 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3470 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3471 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3472 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3477 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3483 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3486 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3490 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3496 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3502 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3514 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3517 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3518 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3519 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3520 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3522 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3523 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3527 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3533 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3536 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3540 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3543 upset. Closes: #131322
3545 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3547 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3550 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3551 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3552 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3553 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3554 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3555 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3556 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3557 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3558 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3559 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3560 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3561 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3562 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3563 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3564 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3566 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3570 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3573 - Better indenting of generated code.
3574 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3578 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3582 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3583 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3584 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3585 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3586 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3587 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3588 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3592 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3595 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3599 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3602 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3603 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3604 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3605 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3606 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3607 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3608 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3609 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3610 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3611 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3612 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3613 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3614 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3615 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3616 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3621 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3627 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3630 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3631 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3635 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3638 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3639 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3643 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3649 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3652 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3653 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3654 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3655 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3656 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3661 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3667 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3670 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3677 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3682 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3688 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3691 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3695 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3701 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3705 Also some indentation fixes.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3709 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3712 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3713 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3714 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3715 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3716 Closes: #106514, #85520
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3726 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3732 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3738 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3750 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3753 change it in debhelper v4..
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3757 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3763 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3766 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3770 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3773 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3777 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3783 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3786 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3787 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3788 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3789 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3790 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3791 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3792 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3793 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3794 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3795 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3796 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3797 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3801 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3804 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3808 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3815 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3818 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3819 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3820 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3821 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3822 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3823 program those options go to. So, for example,
3824 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3825 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3826 something complex. Closes: #89311
3827 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3831 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3834 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3835 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3836 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3840 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3843 through loop. Closes: #98598
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3847 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Missing semi-colon.
3850 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3851 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3855 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3858 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3859 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3860 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3864 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3867 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3868 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3872 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3875 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3879 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3882 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3883 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3887 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3890 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3891 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3892 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3896 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3899 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3900 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3901 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3905 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3908 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3912 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3918 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3924 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3930 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3936 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3939 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3943 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3946 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3947 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3948 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3949 followed. Closes: #85483
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3953 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3955 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3956 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3957 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3961 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3964 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3965 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3966 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3967 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3968 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3969 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3970 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3971 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3972 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3973 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3974 Closes: #88464, #77743
3975 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3976 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3977 us to deal with that gracefully.
3978 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3980 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3981 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3982 a while, Closes: #51225
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3986 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3992 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3995 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3999 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4003 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4008 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4011 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4012 don't make packlist files.
4013 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4014 debhelper coding standards.
4015 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4016 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4020 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4023 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4027 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4030 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4031 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4032 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4033 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4034 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4035 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4036 but is mildly deprecated.
4037 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4038 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4039 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4040 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4041 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4042 switching to statoverrides..
4043 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4044 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4045 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4046 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4047 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4048 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4050 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4051 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4052 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4053 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4054 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4055 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4056 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4057 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4058 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4060 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4061 variable names, pod man pages).
4062 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4063 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4064 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4065 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4066 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4067 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4068 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4088 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4094 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4095 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4096 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4100 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4102 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4103 they were previously ignored.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4107 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4109 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4110 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4116 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4117 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4118 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4122 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4124 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4128 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4130 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4131 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4135 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4137 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4138 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4139 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4140 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4141 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4142 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4143 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4144 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4145 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4146 it is an obsolete program.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4150 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4152 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4160 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4166 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4170 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4172 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4176 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4182 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * typo: Closes, #78567
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4203 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4204 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4205 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4206 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4207 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4211 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4214 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4222 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4223 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4224 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4225 backwards-compatibility.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4229 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4232 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4233 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4234 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4235 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4236 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4237 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4239 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4240 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4241 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4243 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4245 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4246 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4247 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4248 should now be raised to severity important..
4249 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4250 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4257 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4268 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4274 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4287 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4290 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4291 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4292 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4293 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4303 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4306 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4307 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4308 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4309 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4310 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4311 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4319 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4332 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4340 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4341 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4342 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4343 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4351 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4354 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4357 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4358 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4361 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4363 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4364 the TODO entry about it.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4378 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4379 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4386 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4387 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4388 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4389 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4409 (this appears to be logal).
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4413 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4416 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4417 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4418 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4419 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4432 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4433 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4434 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4435 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4448 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4462 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4463 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4464 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4485 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4486 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4487 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4488 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4489 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4490 notice until v2 is complete.
4491 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4492 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4493 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4494 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4495 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4496 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4498 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4499 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4500 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4501 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4505 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4521 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4535 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4536 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4537 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4538 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4546 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4547 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4548 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4556 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4557 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4561 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4564 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4571 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4585 depend on the build and install targets.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4592 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4609 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4615 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4618 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4619 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4620 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4621 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4622 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4623 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4625 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4626 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4627 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4628 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4629 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4630 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4631 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4635 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4641 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4647 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4650 right place. Closes: #55065
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4654 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4661 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4664 * Copyright date updates.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4668 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4671 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4676 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4682 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4689 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4695 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4701 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4707 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4710 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4711 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4712 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4713 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4714 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4715 bits until all files have been registered.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4719 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_installmanpages:
4722 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4723 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4724 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4725 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4726 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4727 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4728 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4729 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4730 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4731 otherwise change the result at all.
4733 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4734 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4735 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4736 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4737 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4742 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4748 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4751 act on files that don't exist.
4752 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4753 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4754 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4756 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4757 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4758 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4759 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4763 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4769 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4775 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4778 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4782 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4785 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4787 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4788 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4789 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4793 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4796 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4797 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4798 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4799 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4800 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4801 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4802 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4804 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4806 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4810 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4829 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4832 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4851 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4852 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4853 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4854 I made some changes, though:
4855 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4856 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4857 that is a clear violation of policy.
4858 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4859 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4860 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4861 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4862 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4863 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4864 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4865 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4866 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4868 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4872 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4881 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4888 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4889 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4894 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4900 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4910 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4911 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4912 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4913 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4914 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4915 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4916 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4926 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4930 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4931 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4935 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4944 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4951 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4952 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4956 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4958 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4967 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4974 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4975 for the dependancies to be generated.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4979 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4982 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4986 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4989 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4990 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4991 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4999 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5000 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5019 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5032 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5033 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5034 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5035 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5036 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5037 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5038 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5039 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5040 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5041 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5042 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5043 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5047 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5050 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5051 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5053 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5054 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5055 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5056 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5057 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5058 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5060 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5061 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5068 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5082 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5090 for building debhelper.
5091 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5105 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5109 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5112 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5113 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5114 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5115 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5116 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5117 it's always available.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5124 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5125 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5126 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5130 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5133 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5134 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5147 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5160 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5161 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5162 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5169 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5174 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5177 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5178 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5180 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5181 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5185 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5191 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5197 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5200 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5204 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5207 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5208 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5210 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5214 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5217 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5218 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5219 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5223 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5226 things if CDPATH is set.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5230 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5236 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5239 seems to make sense for the transition.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5246 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5251 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5254 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5255 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5259 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5262 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5269 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5270 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5271 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5272 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5276 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5282 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5285 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5286 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5287 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5288 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5289 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5290 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5291 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5292 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5293 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5294 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5302 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5303 * README: mention doc/v2
5304 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5305 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5311 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5312 be using this script RSN.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5319 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5320 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5321 more than 1 init script.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5325 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5328 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * Changed perl version detection.
5335 * Changed call to find.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5339 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5342 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5344 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Really include dh_installpam.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5358 * Wrote man page for same.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5365 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5366 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5371 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5381 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5382 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5383 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5384 x bit was being set!
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5388 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5391 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5392 well. (Closes: 38900)
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5396 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5399 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5400 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5410 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5417 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5423 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5426 help from Julian Gilbey.
5427 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5428 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5429 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5430 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5431 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5432 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5433 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5451 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5466 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5470 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5473 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5477 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5480 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5493 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5503 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5512 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5513 may be deleted. (#35845)
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5517 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * Various man page enhancements.
5520 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5525 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5528 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5529 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5536 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5537 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5538 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5540 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5541 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5552 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Another very minor typo fix.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Very minor typo fix.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5567 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5568 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5581 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5582 variables properly (#34850).
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5595 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5596 (automatically generated by build process).
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5602 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5609 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5610 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5612 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5619 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5623 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * README: minor typo fix.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5632 leave it at that. :-)
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5636 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5642 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5648 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5651 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5652 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5653 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5660 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5667 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5671 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5674 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5675 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5676 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5677 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5681 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5684 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5685 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5686 Craig Small for spotting this.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5693 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5694 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5704 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5707 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5713 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5714 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5715 working on the last version of debhelper.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5719 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5722 being made. (#23255)
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5732 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5735 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5739 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5742 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5743 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5744 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5745 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5752 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5753 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5754 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5755 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5757 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5758 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5760 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5780 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5781 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5782 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5783 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5784 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5785 suidregister actually supports it.
5786 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5787 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5791 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5798 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5801 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5802 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5803 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5804 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5805 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5806 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5807 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5811 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5813 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5814 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5821 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5822 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5823 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5824 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5828 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5831 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5833 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5834 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5835 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5836 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5837 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5838 effect, either. (#30118)
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5848 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5851 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5852 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5856 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5862 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5865 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5866 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5867 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5868 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5872 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5875 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5876 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5880 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5886 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5889 packages, painlessly.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5893 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5899 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5905 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * The perl conversion is complete.
5915 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5917 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5918 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5919 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5924 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5927 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5928 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5929 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5933 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5936 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5938 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5940 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5941 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5945 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5948 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5949 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5953 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5959 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5962 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5963 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5964 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5965 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5966 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5970 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5973 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5974 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5975 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5976 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5980 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5983 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5987 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5990 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5991 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5992 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5993 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5994 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5995 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5996 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5997 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6001 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6007 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6010 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6011 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6012 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6017 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6020 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6024 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6027 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6031 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6034 sections of shared libraries.
6035 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6036 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6037 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6038 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6039 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6040 things you don't want them to.
6041 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6042 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6046 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6049 shared libraries. (#26414)
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6053 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6055 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6056 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6057 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6058 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6062 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6066 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6068 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6069 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6070 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6071 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6072 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6076 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6079 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6083 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6086 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6087 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6092 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6095 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6099 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6102 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6103 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6104 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6105 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6106 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6108 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6109 remove debian/files properly.
6110 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6111 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6112 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6113 * Removed bogus menu file.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6117 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6120 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6124 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6127 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6128 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6129 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6130 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6131 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6132 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6136 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6139 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6140 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6141 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6142 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6146 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6153 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6156 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6157 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6159 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6160 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6161 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6162 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6163 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6164 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6168 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6171 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6172 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6173 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6174 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6175 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6176 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6177 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6178 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6179 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6180 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6181 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6182 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6183 passed any switches.
6184 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6188 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6191 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6192 at all for a long while.
6193 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6194 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6195 large chunks in the process.
6196 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6197 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6198 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6203 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6206 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6208 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6213 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6216 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6217 that don't always have the same files in them.
6218 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6219 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6220 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6224 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6228 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6229 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6230 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6231 updating 27 man pages.
6232 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6233 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6234 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6235 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6236 programs act on. (#25247)
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6240 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6244 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6245 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6246 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6247 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6248 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6249 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6254 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6261 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6268 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6271 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6275 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6281 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6284 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6285 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6286 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6287 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6288 package by accident.
6289 * Is version 1.0 next?
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6293 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6296 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6297 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6301 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6304 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6305 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6306 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6307 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6308 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6310 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6315 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6318 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6319 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6323 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6326 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6330 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6333 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6334 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6339 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6345 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6347 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6348 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6349 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6354 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6360 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6362 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6363 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6364 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6365 past week. Thanks, guys!
6367 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6368 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6369 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6370 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6371 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6372 would do in the same situation.
6373 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6374 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6376 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6378 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6379 permissions changed.
6380 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6381 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6382 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6383 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6384 files are treated identically.
6385 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6386 * Minor man page fixes.
6387 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6388 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6389 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6393 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6396 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6397 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6398 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6399 use -X multiple times, too.
6400 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6401 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6405 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6408 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6409 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6413 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6416 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6420 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6423 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6424 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6425 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6426 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6427 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6428 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6429 shape if you're starting a new package.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6433 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6436 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6440 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6443 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6444 because of missing symlinks.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6448 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6454 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6457 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6458 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6459 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6460 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6461 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6463 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6464 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6468 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6470 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6471 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6472 to be changed after the fact :-)
6473 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6477 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6479 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6480 no version string after the -V.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6484 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6486 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6487 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6492 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6495 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6499 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6502 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6503 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6504 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6505 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6506 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6507 I always welcome corrections!
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6511 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6520 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6521 * Documented this new switch.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6525 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6528 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6529 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6530 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6531 no packages use the old behavior.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6535 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6538 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6539 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6543 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6545 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6546 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6550 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6552 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6556 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6559 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6563 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6566 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6567 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6568 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6572 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6578 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6581 into the source package by accident.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6585 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6588 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6589 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6590 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6591 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6592 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6593 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6598 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6602 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6603 inspired to implement some of it.
6604 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6608 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6611 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6615 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6618 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6619 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6623 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6626 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6627 have done.) (#17598)
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6631 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6637 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6639 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6643 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6646 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6650 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6652 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6653 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6654 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6661 argument processor in perl.
6662 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6663 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6664 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6665 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6672 type directories. (#16933)
6673 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6674 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6675 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6676 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6677 are supported. (#16935)
6678 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6683 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6686 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6690 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6692 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6694 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6695 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6696 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6697 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6698 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6699 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6703 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6706 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6707 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6709 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6710 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6711 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6712 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6713 a given package, or -i or -a.
6714 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6715 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6716 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6717 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6718 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6719 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6720 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6721 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6722 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6724 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6725 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6726 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6730 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6732 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6733 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6734 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6739 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6741 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6742 does not have a section.
6744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6746 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6748 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6749 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6750 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6751 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6755 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * Fixed typo #16215.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6764 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6765 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6766 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6767 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6768 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6773 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6776 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6777 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6778 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6783 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6785 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6789 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6791 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6795 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6797 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6798 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6799 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6800 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6801 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6802 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6803 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6807 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6809 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6813 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6815 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6816 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6820 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6822 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6823 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6824 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6825 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6829 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6831 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6832 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6836 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6838 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6842 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6844 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6845 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6849 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6851 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6852 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6856 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6862 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6865 postinst, postrm, etc.
6867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6869 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6871 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6875 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6878 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6879 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6880 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6881 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6882 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6886 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6888 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6889 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6890 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6894 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6896 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6897 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6901 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6903 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6904 installing package files into.
6905 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6910 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6912 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6914 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6918 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6924 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6926 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6927 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6931 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6933 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6934 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6935 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6936 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6937 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6941 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6943 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6944 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6945 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6946 multiple binary packages.
6947 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6948 should rebuild them with this version.
6949 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6953 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6955 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6956 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6960 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6962 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6963 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6967 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6969 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6970 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6971 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6972 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6973 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6974 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6975 debian/README.debian.
6976 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6977 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6978 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6979 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6980 in a few situations.)
6982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6984 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6986 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6990 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6992 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6996 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6998 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6999 * Fixed several man pages.
7001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7003 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7005 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7006 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7007 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7011 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7013 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7014 is ready for general use.
7015 * Added man pages for all commands.
7016 * Multiple binary package support.
7017 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7018 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7019 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7021 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7022 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7023 auto-installed as parameters.
7024 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7026 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7029 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7030 the package build directory it is to act on.
7031 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7032 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7033 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7037 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7039 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7040 ready to replace debstd.
7042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400