1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
8 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
14 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
17 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
18 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
22 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
25 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
26 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
27 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
28 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
29 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
30 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
31 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
36 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
40 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
41 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
43 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
44 changes may be added to that mode.
45 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
46 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
47 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
48 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
49 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
50 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
51 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
52 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
53 * Removed old example rules files.
54 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
58 * update french translation.
59 * Fix french misspelling.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
63 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
66 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
70 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
73 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
75 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
76 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
77 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
78 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
79 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
83 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
86 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
87 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
88 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
89 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
90 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
91 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
93 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
94 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
95 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
96 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
97 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
98 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
99 (Thanks, David Prévot)
100 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
101 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
102 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
103 target fails. Closes: #601037
104 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
106 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
107 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
108 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
109 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
110 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
112 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
113 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
115 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
116 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
117 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
119 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
121 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
124 * update french translation.
125 * Fix french misspelling.
126 * French translation update after massive man page typography
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
130 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
136 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
140 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
142 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
146 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
148 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
149 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
150 introduced by the fix to #527990.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
154 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
157 changes are planned for that mode.
158 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
159 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
160 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
161 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
162 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
163 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
164 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
165 (genesis) still uses them.
166 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
167 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
168 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
169 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
170 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
171 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
172 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
173 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
174 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
175 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
176 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
177 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
178 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
179 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
180 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
181 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
182 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
183 commands. (See #570039)
184 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
186 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
191 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
195 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
196 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
197 in control file or debhelper config files.
198 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
202 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
205 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
206 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
210 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
213 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
217 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
220 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
221 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
225 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Updated French translation.
228 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
229 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
230 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
231 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
233 * Typo. Closes: #571968
234 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
235 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
236 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
237 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
238 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
239 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
240 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
241 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
242 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
244 * dh: Improve documentation.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
248 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
250 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
251 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
252 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
256 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
259 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
263 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
266 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
270 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
273 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
274 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
275 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
276 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
277 options that they do not support.
278 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
279 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
280 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
281 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
282 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
283 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
288 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
292 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
293 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
294 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
295 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
296 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
297 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
298 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
299 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
300 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
304 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
307 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
308 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
309 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
310 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
314 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Typo. Closes: #558654
317 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
318 installed. Closes: #558782
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
322 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
325 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
326 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
327 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
328 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
329 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
333 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
335 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
336 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
337 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
338 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
342 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
345 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
346 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
350 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
352 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
356 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
358 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
359 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
360 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
361 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
362 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
363 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
364 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
365 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
366 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
367 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
368 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
369 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
370 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
371 time soon.) Closes: #554509
372 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
374 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
375 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
376 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
377 document id. Closes: #555677
378 * Typo. Closes: #555659
379 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
380 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
381 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
382 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
384 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
385 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
386 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
391 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
394 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
395 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
396 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
397 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
398 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
399 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
400 translation (#494300 part 2)
403 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
405 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
406 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
407 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
408 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
409 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
413 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
416 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
417 (It was only run once due to logging.)
418 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
419 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
420 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
421 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
422 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
423 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
424 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
425 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
426 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
427 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
431 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
435 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
438 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
439 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
443 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
446 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
447 flag with arch all/any packages.
448 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
449 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
450 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
451 situation. Closes: #540794
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
455 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
459 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
460 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
461 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
462 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
463 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
466 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
467 the default. Closes: #538201
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
472 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
476 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
477 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
478 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
479 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
480 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
482 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
483 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
484 * Above Closes: #491117
485 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
490 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
496 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
497 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
498 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
502 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
505 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
506 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
507 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
508 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
509 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
514 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
517 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
518 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
522 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
524 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
528 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
530 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
531 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
533 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
534 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
535 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
539 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
541 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
542 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
546 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
552 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
554 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
555 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
556 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
561 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
563 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
567 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
570 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
571 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
572 created by using `python' first during build and install.
574 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
579 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
581 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
585 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
587 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
588 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
592 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
594 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
598 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
600 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
604 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
606 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
607 contributed by Modestas Vainius
608 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
609 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
610 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
611 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
612 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
613 that support it. Closes: #480577
614 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
615 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
616 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
618 - Adds support for cmake.
619 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
620 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
622 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
624 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
625 that use them. The options are:
626 --sourcedir, --destdir
627 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
628 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
629 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
630 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
631 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
635 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
644 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
645 default. Closes: #537140
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
652 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
653 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
660 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
664 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
667 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
674 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
676 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
677 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
678 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
682 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
685 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
686 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
687 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
691 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
694 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
695 warning or deprecation message.
696 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
697 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
698 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
699 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
700 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
701 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
702 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
703 Closes: #534639, #357434
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
713 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
716 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
717 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
718 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
719 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
721 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
722 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
723 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
727 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
733 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
743 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
747 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
751 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
752 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
754 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
755 file support. Closes: #494914
756 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
760 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
763 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
764 parameters. Closes: #527256
765 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
766 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
767 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
771 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
775 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
776 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
777 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
781 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
784 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
785 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
786 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
790 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
793 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
794 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
796 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
797 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
798 by triggers). Closes: #521181
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
802 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
806 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
810 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
813 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
814 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
815 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
816 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
821 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
827 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
830 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
831 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
832 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
833 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
834 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
836 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
837 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
838 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
839 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
840 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
841 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
845 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
848 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
849 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
850 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
851 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
852 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
854 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
858 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
860 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
864 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
866 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
867 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
868 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
869 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
870 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
871 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
872 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
873 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
874 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
875 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
876 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
880 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
882 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
883 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
885 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
886 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
887 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
888 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
890 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
891 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
895 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
897 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
898 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
899 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
900 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
901 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
902 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
903 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
905 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
906 that uses them. Affected options are:
907 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
908 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
909 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
910 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
911 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
912 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
913 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
914 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
915 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
916 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
917 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
918 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
922 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
929 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
935 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
937 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
938 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
940 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
941 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
942 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
943 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
944 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
946 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
948 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
949 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
950 rules (see bug #509756).
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
954 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
960 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
961 * Typo. Closes: #493062
962 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
963 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
967 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
970 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
971 empty files. Closes: #490937
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
975 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
981 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
988 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
991 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
992 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
993 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
994 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
999 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1001 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1002 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1003 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1004 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1008 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1011 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1012 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1013 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1014 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1015 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1019 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1026 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1029 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1030 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1031 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1032 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1033 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1034 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1035 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1036 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1037 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1041 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1044 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1045 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1046 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1047 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1049 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1050 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1051 breaking backwards compatibility.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1055 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1058 message in perl 5.10.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1062 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1068 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1071 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1075 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1078 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1082 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1085 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1086 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1087 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1088 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1089 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1090 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1091 logging by dh_listpackages.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1095 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1098 run and there are no packages of that type.
1099 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1100 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1101 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1102 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1104 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1105 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1109 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1112 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1113 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1120 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1121 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1123 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1124 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1125 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1126 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1127 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1128 planned but not yet implemented.)
1129 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1130 if the Makefile has such a target.
1131 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1132 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1133 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1134 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1135 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1136 but not yet implemented.)
1137 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1138 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1139 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1140 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1141 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1143 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1145 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1146 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1148 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1149 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1150 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1155 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1158 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1159 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1163 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1165 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1166 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1167 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1171 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1177 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1183 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1186 just those installed by the program.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1190 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1193 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1194 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1198 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1201 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1202 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1203 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1204 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1208 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1211 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1212 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1216 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1219 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1220 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1224 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1227 with policy. Closes: #461392
1228 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1229 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1230 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1231 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1232 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1236 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1239 Closes: #460340, #460351
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1243 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1246 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1247 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1248 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1249 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1253 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1256 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1257 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1258 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1259 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1260 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1261 package build directory won't work.
1262 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1263 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1264 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1265 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1266 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1267 mode. Closes: #459426
1268 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1273 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1276 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1284 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1285 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1286 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1287 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1288 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1289 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1293 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1296 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1297 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1298 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1299 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1303 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1306 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1307 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1308 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1309 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1310 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1317 debian/package.triggers files.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1324 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1328 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1331 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1332 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1333 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1334 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1339 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1342 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1349 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1350 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1352 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1357 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1361 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1362 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1363 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1374 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1381 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1384 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1386 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1387 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1388 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1390 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1391 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1392 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1396 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1399 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1400 * Update urls to web page.
1401 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1402 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1403 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1404 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1408 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1411 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1412 - typo in alternatives call
1413 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1415 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1416 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1420 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1423 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1428 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1434 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1440 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1443 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1445 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1446 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1447 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1448 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1449 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1450 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1451 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1452 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1453 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1454 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1455 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1462 package install. Closes: #415717
1463 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1464 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1465 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1466 script and then remove the python files.
1467 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1468 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1469 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1470 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1471 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1472 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1473 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1474 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1475 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1476 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1477 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1478 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1479 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1483 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Correct typo in french translation
1489 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1490 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1492 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1494 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1495 Closes: #406921, #381940
1496 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1498 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1499 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1500 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1501 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1502 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1503 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1504 specified). Closes: #381851
1505 * Misc minor changes.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1509 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1516 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1517 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1521 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1527 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1528 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1531 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1532 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1534 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1535 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1536 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1537 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1541 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1544 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1547 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1551 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1557 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1563 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1564 a difficult situation.
1565 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1566 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1567 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1568 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1569 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1570 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1571 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1572 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1573 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1574 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1578 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Non-maintainer upload.
1581 * Update of dh_python
1582 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1583 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1585 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1586 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1587 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1588 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1589 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1591 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1593 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Non-maintainer upload.
1596 * Update of dh_python
1597 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1598 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1599 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1600 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1601 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1602 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1603 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1604 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1605 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1606 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1608 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1609 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1610 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1611 the not too-distant future).
1612 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1613 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1614 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1615 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1616 thus made the build fail.
1618 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1620 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Non-maintainer upload.
1623 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1625 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1627 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1630 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1631 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1632 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1633 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1634 package. Closes: #301424
1635 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1636 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1637 fonts). Closes: #372686
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1641 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1647 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1648 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1649 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1650 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1651 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1652 above, but already depends on that.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1659 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1660 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1661 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1662 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1663 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1667 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1673 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1679 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1680 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1687 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1691 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1695 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1696 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1697 new version (0.24.1).
1698 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1699 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1702 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1703 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1704 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1705 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1706 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1707 new directory on their own.
1708 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1709 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1713 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1716 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1717 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1718 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1719 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1723 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1726 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1727 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1728 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1729 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1730 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1734 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1740 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1744 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1745 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1749 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1750 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1754 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1756 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1757 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1759 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1760 ignored. Closes: #337664
1762 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1773 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1778 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1779 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1780 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1781 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1782 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1783 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1784 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1788 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1791 version. Closes: #350607
1792 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1793 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1794 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1795 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1799 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1802 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1803 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1804 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1808 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1815 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1821 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1824 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1831 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1832 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1833 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1834 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1835 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1836 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1843 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1844 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1852 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1856 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1859 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1863 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1866 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1867 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1868 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1869 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1870 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1871 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1875 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1879 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1880 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1881 link. Closes: #346405
1882 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1884 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1885 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1886 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1887 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1888 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1889 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1890 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1901 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1910 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1914 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1917 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1922 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1926 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1927 installed. Closes: #342033
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1931 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1934 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1935 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1936 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1941 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1947 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1953 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1957 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1958 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1959 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1963 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1966 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1971 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1978 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1984 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1987 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1988 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1989 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1990 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1991 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1992 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1993 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1995 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2002 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2003 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2010 in standard man dirs.
2011 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2024 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2043 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2046 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2047 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2054 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2055 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2056 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2058 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2060 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2075 mode. Closes: #324161
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2082 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2083 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2084 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2085 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2093 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2094 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2095 is necesary for sanity.
2096 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2097 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2104 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2105 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2112 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2125 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2126 released, so use at your own risk.
2127 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2128 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2130 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2131 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2132 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2133 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2134 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2135 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2136 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2137 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2138 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2139 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2140 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2141 including twice per config file line now..
2142 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2143 and simplfy the rules file.
2144 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2145 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2146 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2148 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2149 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2156 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2163 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2170 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2177 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2178 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2179 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2180 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2181 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2182 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2189 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2190 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2191 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2196 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2199 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2200 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2208 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2209 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2210 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2218 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2219 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2220 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2224 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2240 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2241 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2242 unknown. Closes: #282924
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Spanish man page updates.
2256 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2270 * dh_desktop: reindent
2271 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2272 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2284 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2290 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2294 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2297 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2298 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2302 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2324 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2331 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2332 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2333 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2334 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2335 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2336 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2338 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2339 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2340 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2341 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2342 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2343 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2344 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2345 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2346 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2347 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2348 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2349 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2350 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2351 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2352 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2353 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2367 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2371 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2374 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2381 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2388 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2398 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2413 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2414 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2415 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2419 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2422 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2426 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2429 but occasionally right and necessary.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2436 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2437 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2438 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2439 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2440 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2447 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2449 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2450 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2451 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2452 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2453 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2454 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2455 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2456 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2457 postinst scripts for udebs.
2458 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2462 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2465 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2467 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2468 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2472 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2495 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2499 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2502 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2506 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2509 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2512 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2513 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2517 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2523 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2526 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2533 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2534 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2535 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2537 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2539 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2540 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2541 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2548 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2556 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2557 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2558 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2563 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2569 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2578 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2579 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2580 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2581 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2582 associated -dbg packages.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2589 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2596 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2603 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2610 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2618 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2625 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2633 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2641 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2642 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2643 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2644 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2645 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2646 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2647 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2648 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2649 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2650 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2657 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2665 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2666 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2673 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2674 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2682 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2689 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2696 out section number. Closes: #204731
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2722 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2723 removal. Closes: #204286
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2730 renaming. Closes: #203548
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2737 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2738 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2754 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2760 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2763 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2764 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2765 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2772 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2773 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2793 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2801 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2808 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2810 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2811 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2818 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2826 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2838 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2845 it break hard links (see #188663).
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2852 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2862 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2866 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2867 debconf-mergetemplates
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2871 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2874 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2878 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2881 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2885 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2888 * Update debhelper(1).
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2892 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2895 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2896 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2897 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2898 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2899 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2903 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2906 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2907 the shell. Closes: #178524
2908 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2912 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2915 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2919 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2922 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2926 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2929 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2930 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2931 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2932 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2937 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2940 files from installation.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2944 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2947 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2948 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2952 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2955 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2959 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2962 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2966 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2972 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2978 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2982 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2983 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2985 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2989 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2992 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2993 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2994 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2995 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2999 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3002 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3006 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3009 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3010 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3014 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3018 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3033 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3034 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3035 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3043 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3044 practice. Closes: #163303
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3064 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3066 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3067 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3068 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3069 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3070 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3077 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3098 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3109 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3115 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3131 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3132 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3133 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3134 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3139 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3155 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3156 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3163 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3164 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3165 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3166 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3167 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3171 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3174 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3176 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3184 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3191 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3192 right thing. Closes: #150644
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Stupid, evil typo.
3199 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3213 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3214 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3219 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3225 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3228 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3232 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3235 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3236 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3241 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3244 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3248 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3257 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3258 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3262 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Removing perl warning message.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3274 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3277 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3278 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3279 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3280 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3281 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3282 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3283 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3284 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3288 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3294 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3301 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3304 debconf-mergetemplate.
3305 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3306 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3310 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3313 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3314 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3315 dh_install, which ...
3316 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3317 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3318 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3319 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3320 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3321 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3322 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3323 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3324 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3325 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3326 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3327 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3328 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3329 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3330 other minor changes.
3331 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3332 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3333 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3334 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3335 course there's -X ..)
3336 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3337 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3338 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3340 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3341 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3342 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3343 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3344 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3349 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3355 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3358 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3362 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3374 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3380 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3386 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3389 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3390 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3391 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3392 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3394 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3395 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3399 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3405 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3408 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3412 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3415 upset. Closes: #131322
3417 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3419 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3422 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3423 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3424 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3425 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3426 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3427 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3428 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3429 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3430 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3431 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3432 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3433 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3434 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3435 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3436 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3438 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3442 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3445 - Better indenting of generated code.
3446 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3450 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3454 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3455 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3456 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3457 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3458 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3459 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3460 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3464 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3467 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3471 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3474 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3475 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3476 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3477 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3478 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3479 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3480 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3481 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3482 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3483 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3484 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3485 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3486 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3487 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3488 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3493 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3499 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3502 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3503 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3507 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3510 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3511 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3515 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3521 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3524 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3525 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3526 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3527 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3528 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3533 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3542 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3546 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3549 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3554 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3563 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3567 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3577 Also some indentation fixes.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3584 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3585 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3586 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3587 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3588 Closes: #106514, #85520
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3592 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3610 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3616 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3622 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3625 change it in debhelper v4..
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3629 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3635 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3638 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3642 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3645 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3649 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3655 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3658 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3659 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3660 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3661 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3662 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3663 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3664 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3665 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3666 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3667 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3668 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3669 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3673 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3676 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3690 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3691 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3692 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3693 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3694 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3695 program those options go to. So, for example,
3696 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3697 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3698 something complex. Closes: #89311
3699 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3703 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3706 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3707 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3708 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3715 through loop. Closes: #98598
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3719 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Missing semi-colon.
3722 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3723 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3727 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3730 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3731 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3732 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3736 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3739 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3740 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3747 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3751 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3754 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3755 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3759 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3762 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3763 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3764 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3768 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3771 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3772 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3773 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3777 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3780 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3784 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3790 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3796 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3802 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3808 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3811 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3815 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3818 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3819 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3820 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3821 followed. Closes: #85483
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3825 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3827 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3828 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3829 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3833 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3836 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3837 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3838 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3839 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3840 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3841 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3842 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3843 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3844 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3845 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3846 Closes: #88464, #77743
3847 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3848 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3849 us to deal with that gracefully.
3850 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3852 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3853 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3854 a while, Closes: #51225
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3858 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3864 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3867 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3871 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3875 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3880 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3883 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3884 don't make packlist files.
3885 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3886 debhelper coding standards.
3887 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3888 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3892 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3895 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3899 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3902 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3903 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3904 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3905 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3906 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3907 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3908 but is mildly deprecated.
3909 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3910 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3911 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3912 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3913 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3914 switching to statoverrides..
3915 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3916 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3917 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3918 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3919 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3920 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3922 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3923 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3924 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3925 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3926 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3927 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3928 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3929 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3930 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3932 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3933 variable names, pod man pages).
3934 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3935 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3936 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3937 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3938 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3939 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3940 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3960 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3966 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3967 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3968 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3974 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3975 they were previously ignored.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3981 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3982 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3988 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3989 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3990 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3996 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4000 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4003 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4009 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4010 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4011 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4012 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4013 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4014 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4015 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4016 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4017 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4018 it is an obsolete program.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4024 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4032 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4038 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4042 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4044 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4054 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * typo: Closes, #78567
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4060 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4075 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4076 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4077 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4078 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4079 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4083 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4086 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4094 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4095 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4096 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4097 backwards-compatibility.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4101 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4104 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4105 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4106 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4107 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4108 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4109 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4111 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4112 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4113 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4115 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4117 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4118 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4119 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4120 should now be raised to severity important..
4121 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4122 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4129 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4162 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4163 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4164 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4165 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4169 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4175 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4178 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4179 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4180 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4181 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4182 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4183 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4188 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4191 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4195 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4204 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4212 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4213 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4214 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4215 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4223 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4226 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4229 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4230 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4233 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4235 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4236 the TODO entry about it.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4250 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4251 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4258 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4259 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4260 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4261 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4281 (this appears to be logal).
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4288 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4289 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4290 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4291 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4304 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4305 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4306 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4307 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4320 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4334 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4335 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4336 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4341 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4357 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4358 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4359 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4360 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4361 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4362 notice until v2 is complete.
4363 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4364 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4365 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4366 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4367 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4368 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4370 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4371 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4372 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4373 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4393 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4407 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4408 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4409 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4410 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4418 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4419 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4420 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4428 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4429 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4436 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4443 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4457 depend on the build and install targets.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4464 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4481 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4490 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4491 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4492 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4493 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4494 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4495 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4497 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4498 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4499 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4500 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4501 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4502 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4503 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4507 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4513 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4519 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4522 right place. Closes: #55065
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4536 * Copyright date updates.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4540 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4543 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4554 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4561 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4567 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4573 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4579 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4582 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4583 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4584 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4585 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4586 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4587 bits until all files have been registered.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4591 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_installmanpages:
4594 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4595 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4596 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4597 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4598 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4599 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4600 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4601 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4602 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4603 otherwise change the result at all.
4605 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4606 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4607 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4608 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4609 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4614 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4620 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4623 act on files that don't exist.
4624 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4625 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4626 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4628 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4629 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4630 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4631 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4635 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4641 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4647 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4650 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4654 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4657 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4659 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4660 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4661 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4665 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4668 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4669 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4670 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4671 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4672 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4673 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4674 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4676 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4678 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4682 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4689 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4704 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4723 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4724 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4725 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4726 I made some changes, though:
4727 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4728 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4729 that is a clear violation of policy.
4730 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4731 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4732 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4733 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4734 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4735 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4736 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4737 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4738 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4740 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4744 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4753 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4760 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4761 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4782 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4783 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4784 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4785 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4786 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4787 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4788 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4802 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4803 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4816 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4823 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4824 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4830 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4839 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4846 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4847 for the dependancies to be generated.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4854 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4858 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4861 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4862 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4863 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4871 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4872 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4888 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4891 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4895 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4904 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4905 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4906 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4907 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4908 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4909 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4910 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4911 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4912 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4913 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4914 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4915 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4922 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4923 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4925 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4926 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4927 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4928 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4929 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4930 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4932 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4933 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4937 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4940 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4951 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4954 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4962 for building debhelper.
4963 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4977 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4984 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4985 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4986 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4987 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4988 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4989 it's always available.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4996 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4997 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4998 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5005 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5006 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5016 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5019 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5029 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5032 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5033 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5034 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5038 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5041 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5049 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5050 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5052 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5053 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5057 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5063 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5069 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5072 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5076 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5079 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5080 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5082 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5086 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5089 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5090 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5091 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5095 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5098 things if CDPATH is set.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5102 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5111 seems to make sense for the transition.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5118 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5126 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5127 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5134 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5138 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5141 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5142 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5143 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5144 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5154 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5157 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5158 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5159 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5160 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5161 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5162 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5163 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5164 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5165 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5166 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5174 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5175 * README: mention doc/v2
5176 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5177 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5183 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5184 be using this script RSN.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5191 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5192 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5193 more than 1 init script.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5200 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5204 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * Changed perl version detection.
5207 * Changed call to find.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5211 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5214 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5216 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * Really include dh_installpam.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5230 * Wrote man page for same.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5237 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5238 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5253 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5254 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5255 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5256 x bit was being set!
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5263 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5264 well. (Closes: 38900)
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5271 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5272 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5282 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5289 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5298 help from Julian Gilbey.
5299 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5300 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5301 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5302 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5303 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5304 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5305 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5310 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5335 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5338 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5342 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5345 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5349 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5352 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5356 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5365 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5375 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5384 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5385 may be deleted. (#35845)
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Various man page enhancements.
5392 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5400 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5401 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5408 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5409 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5410 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5412 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5413 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5418 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Another very minor typo fix.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Very minor typo fix.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5436 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5439 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5440 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5453 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5454 variables properly (#34850).
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5467 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5468 (automatically generated by build process).
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5474 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5478 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5481 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5482 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5484 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5491 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5495 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * README: minor typo fix.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5504 leave it at that. :-)
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5523 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5524 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5525 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5532 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5539 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5543 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5546 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5547 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5548 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5549 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5556 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5557 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5558 Craig Small for spotting this.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5565 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5566 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5579 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5585 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5586 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5587 working on the last version of debhelper.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5594 being made. (#23255)
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5607 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5614 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5615 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5616 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5617 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5624 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5625 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5626 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5627 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5629 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5630 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5632 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5637 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5643 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5652 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5653 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5654 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5655 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5656 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5657 suidregister actually supports it.
5658 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5659 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5663 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5670 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5673 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5674 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5675 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5676 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5677 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5678 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5679 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5683 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5685 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5686 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5690 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5693 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5694 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5695 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5696 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5700 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5703 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5705 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5706 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5707 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5708 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5709 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5710 effect, either. (#30118)
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5720 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5723 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5724 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5734 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5737 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5738 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5739 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5740 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5744 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5747 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5748 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5761 packages, painlessly.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5765 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5771 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5777 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5783 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * The perl conversion is complete.
5787 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5789 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5790 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5791 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5796 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5799 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5800 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5801 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5805 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5808 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5810 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5812 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5813 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5817 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5820 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5821 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5831 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5834 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5835 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5836 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5837 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5838 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5842 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5845 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5846 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5847 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5848 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5852 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5855 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5859 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5862 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5863 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5864 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5865 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5866 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5867 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5868 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5869 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5879 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5882 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5883 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5884 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5889 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5892 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5896 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5899 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5903 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5906 sections of shared libraries.
5907 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5908 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5909 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5910 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5911 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5912 things you don't want them to.
5913 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5914 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5921 shared libraries. (#26414)
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5925 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5927 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5928 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5929 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5930 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5934 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5938 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5940 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5941 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5942 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5943 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5944 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5948 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5951 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5955 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5958 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5959 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5964 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5967 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5971 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5974 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5975 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5976 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5977 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5978 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5980 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5981 remove debian/files properly.
5982 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5983 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5984 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5985 * Removed bogus menu file.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5989 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5992 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5996 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5999 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6000 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6001 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6002 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6003 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6004 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6008 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6011 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6012 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6013 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6014 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6018 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6025 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6028 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6029 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6031 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6032 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6033 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6034 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6035 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6036 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6040 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6043 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6044 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6045 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6046 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6047 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6048 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6049 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6050 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6051 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6052 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6053 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6054 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6055 passed any switches.
6056 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6060 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6063 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6064 at all for a long while.
6065 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6066 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6067 large chunks in the process.
6068 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6069 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6070 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6075 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6078 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6080 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6085 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6088 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6089 that don't always have the same files in them.
6090 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6091 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6092 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6096 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6100 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6101 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6102 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6103 updating 27 man pages.
6104 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6105 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6106 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6107 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6108 programs act on. (#25247)
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6112 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6116 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6117 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6118 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6119 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6120 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6121 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6126 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6133 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6140 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6143 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6147 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6153 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6156 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6157 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6158 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6159 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6160 package by accident.
6161 * Is version 1.0 next?
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6165 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6168 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6169 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6173 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6176 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6177 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6178 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6179 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6180 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6182 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6187 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6190 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6191 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6198 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6202 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6205 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6206 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6217 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6220 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6221 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6226 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6232 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6235 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6236 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6237 past week. Thanks, guys!
6239 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6240 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6241 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6242 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6243 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6244 would do in the same situation.
6245 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6246 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6248 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6250 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6251 permissions changed.
6252 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6253 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6254 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6255 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6256 files are treated identically.
6257 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6258 * Minor man page fixes.
6259 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6260 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6261 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6265 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6267 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6268 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6269 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6270 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6271 use -X multiple times, too.
6272 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6273 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6277 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6280 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6281 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6285 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6288 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6292 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6295 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6296 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6297 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6298 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6299 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6300 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6301 shape if you're starting a new package.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6305 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6308 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6312 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6315 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6316 because of missing symlinks.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6320 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6326 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6329 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6330 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6331 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6332 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6333 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6335 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6336 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6342 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6343 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6344 to be changed after the fact :-)
6345 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6349 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6351 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6352 no version string after the -V.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6356 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6358 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6359 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6364 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6367 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6371 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6374 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6375 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6376 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6377 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6378 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6379 I always welcome corrections!
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6383 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6389 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6391 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6392 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6393 * Documented this new switch.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6397 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6400 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6401 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6402 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6403 no packages use the old behavior.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6407 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6410 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6411 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6415 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6418 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6422 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6428 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6431 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6435 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6438 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6439 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6440 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6444 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6450 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6453 into the source package by accident.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6457 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6460 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6461 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6462 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6463 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6464 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6465 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6470 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6474 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6475 inspired to implement some of it.
6476 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6480 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6483 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6487 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6490 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6491 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6495 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6498 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6499 have done.) (#17598)
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6503 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6509 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6518 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6525 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6526 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6533 argument processor in perl.
6534 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6535 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6536 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6537 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6544 type directories. (#16933)
6545 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6546 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6547 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6548 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6549 are supported. (#16935)
6550 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6558 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6562 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6566 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6567 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6568 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6569 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6570 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6571 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6575 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6577 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6578 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6579 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6581 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6582 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6583 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6584 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6585 a given package, or -i or -a.
6586 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6587 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6588 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6589 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6590 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6591 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6592 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6593 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6594 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6596 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6597 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6598 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6605 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6606 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6611 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6613 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6614 does not have a section.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6618 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6621 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6622 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6623 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6627 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6629 * Fixed typo #16215.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6633 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6636 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6637 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6638 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6639 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6640 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6645 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6648 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6649 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6650 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6655 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6657 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6661 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6663 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6667 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6670 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6671 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6672 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6673 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6674 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6675 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6679 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6681 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6688 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6692 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6695 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6696 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6697 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6704 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6708 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6714 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6717 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6721 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6724 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6728 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6730 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6734 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6736 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6737 postinst, postrm, etc.
6739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6741 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6743 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6747 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6749 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6750 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6751 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6752 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6753 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6754 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6758 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6761 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6762 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6769 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6773 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6776 installing package files into.
6777 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6782 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6786 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6790 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6792 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6796 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6798 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6799 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6803 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6805 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6806 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6807 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6808 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6809 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6813 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6815 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6816 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6817 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6818 multiple binary packages.
6819 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6820 should rebuild them with this version.
6821 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6825 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6827 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6828 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6832 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6834 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6835 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6839 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6841 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6842 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6843 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6844 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6845 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6846 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6847 debian/README.debian.
6848 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6849 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6850 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6851 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6852 in a few situations.)
6854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6856 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6858 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6862 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6864 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6868 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6871 * Fixed several man pages.
6873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6875 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6877 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6878 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6879 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6883 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6886 is ready for general use.
6887 * Added man pages for all commands.
6888 * Multiple binary package support.
6889 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6890 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6891 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6893 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6894 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6895 auto-installed as parameters.
6896 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6898 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6901 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6902 the package build directory it is to act on.
6903 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6904 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6905 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6909 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6911 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6912 ready to replace debstd.
6914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400