1 debhelper (8.9.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture for build directory name.
4 Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:26:08 -0400
8 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
11 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
12 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
14 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
15 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
16 to dh. Closes: #643069
17 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
18 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
22 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
25 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
26 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
27 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
28 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
30 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
31 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
32 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
34 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
35 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
36 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
37 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
38 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
39 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
40 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
41 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
42 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
43 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
44 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
45 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
46 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
47 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
48 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
52 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
59 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
62 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
64 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
70 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
73 Use override targets instead.
74 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
75 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
76 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
77 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
78 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
79 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
80 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
81 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
82 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
83 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
88 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
91 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
95 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
101 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
104 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
105 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
106 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
107 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
108 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
109 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
113 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
116 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
117 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
118 the targets. Closes: #629139
119 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
120 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
121 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
122 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
123 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
124 are already set to other values will not be changed.
126 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
127 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
128 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
129 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
130 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
135 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
141 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
144 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
145 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
149 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
152 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
153 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
154 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
155 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
156 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
157 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
158 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
163 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
167 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
168 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
170 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
171 changes may be added to that mode.
172 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
173 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
174 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
175 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
176 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
177 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
178 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
179 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
180 * Removed old example rules files.
181 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
185 * update french translation.
186 * Fix french misspelling.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
190 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
193 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
197 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
200 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
201 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
202 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
203 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
204 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
205 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
206 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
210 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
213 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
214 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
215 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
216 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
217 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
218 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
220 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
221 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
222 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
223 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
224 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
225 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
226 (Thanks, David Prévot)
227 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
228 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
229 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
230 target fails. Closes: #601037
231 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
233 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
234 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
235 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
236 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
237 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
239 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
240 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
242 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
243 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
244 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
246 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
248 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
251 * update french translation.
252 * Fix french misspelling.
253 * French translation update after massive man page typography
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
257 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
263 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
267 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
269 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
273 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
275 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
276 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
277 introduced by the fix to #527990.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
281 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
284 changes are planned for that mode.
285 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
286 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
287 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
288 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
289 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
290 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
291 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
292 (genesis) still uses them.
293 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
294 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
295 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
296 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
297 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
298 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
299 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
300 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
301 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
302 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
303 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
304 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
305 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
306 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
307 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
308 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
309 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
310 commands. (See #570039)
311 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
313 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
318 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
322 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
323 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
324 in control file or debhelper config files.
325 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
329 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
332 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
333 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
337 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
340 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
344 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
347 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
348 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
352 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Updated French translation.
355 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
356 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
357 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
358 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
360 * Typo. Closes: #571968
361 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
362 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
363 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
364 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
365 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
366 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
367 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
368 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
369 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
371 * dh: Improve documentation.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
375 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
377 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
378 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
379 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
383 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
386 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
390 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
393 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
397 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
400 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
401 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
402 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
403 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
404 options that they do not support.
405 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
406 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
407 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
408 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
409 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
410 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
415 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
419 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
420 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
421 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
422 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
423 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
424 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
425 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
426 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
427 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
431 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
434 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
435 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
436 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
437 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
441 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Typo. Closes: #558654
444 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
445 installed. Closes: #558782
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
449 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
452 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
453 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
454 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
455 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
456 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
460 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
462 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
463 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
464 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
465 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
469 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
472 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
473 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
477 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
479 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
483 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
485 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
486 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
487 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
488 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
489 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
490 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
491 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
492 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
493 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
494 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
495 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
496 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
497 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
498 time soon.) Closes: #554509
499 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
501 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
502 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
503 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
504 document id. Closes: #555677
505 * Typo. Closes: #555659
506 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
507 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
508 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
509 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
511 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
512 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
513 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
518 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
521 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
522 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
523 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
524 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
525 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
526 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
527 translation (#494300 part 2)
530 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
532 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
533 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
534 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
535 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
536 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
540 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
543 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
544 (It was only run once due to logging.)
545 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
546 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
547 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
548 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
549 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
550 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
551 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
552 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
553 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
554 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
558 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
562 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
565 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
566 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
570 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
573 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
574 flag with arch all/any packages.
575 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
576 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
577 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
578 situation. Closes: #540794
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
582 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
586 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
587 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
588 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
589 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
590 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
593 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
594 the default. Closes: #538201
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
599 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
603 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
604 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
605 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
606 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
607 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
609 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
610 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
611 * Above Closes: #491117
612 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
617 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
623 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
624 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
625 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
629 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
632 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
633 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
634 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
635 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
636 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
641 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
644 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
645 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
649 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
651 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
655 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
657 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
658 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
660 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
661 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
662 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
666 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
668 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
669 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
673 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
679 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
681 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
682 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
683 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
688 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
690 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
694 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
697 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
698 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
699 created by using `python' first during build and install.
701 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
706 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
708 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
712 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
714 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
715 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
719 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
721 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
725 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
727 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
731 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
733 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
734 contributed by Modestas Vainius
735 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
736 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
737 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
738 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
739 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
740 that support it. Closes: #480577
741 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
742 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
743 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
745 - Adds support for cmake.
746 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
747 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
749 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
751 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
752 that use them. The options are:
753 --sourcedir, --destdir
754 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
755 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
756 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
757 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
758 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
762 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
768 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
771 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
772 default. Closes: #537140
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
776 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
779 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
780 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
784 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
787 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
791 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
794 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
798 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
801 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
803 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
804 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
805 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
809 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
812 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
813 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
814 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
818 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
821 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
822 warning or deprecation message.
823 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
824 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
825 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
826 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
827 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
828 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
829 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
830 Closes: #534639, #357434
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
834 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
840 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
843 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
844 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
845 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
846 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
848 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
849 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
850 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
854 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
860 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
867 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
870 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
874 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
878 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
879 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
881 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
882 file support. Closes: #494914
883 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
887 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
890 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
891 parameters. Closes: #527256
892 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
893 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
894 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
898 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
902 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
903 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
904 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
908 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
911 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
912 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
913 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
917 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
920 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
921 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
923 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
924 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
925 by triggers). Closes: #521181
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
929 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
933 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
937 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
940 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
941 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
942 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
943 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
948 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
954 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
957 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
958 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
959 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
960 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
961 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
963 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
964 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
965 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
966 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
967 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
968 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
972 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
975 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
976 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
977 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
978 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
979 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
981 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
985 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
987 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
991 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
993 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
994 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
995 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
996 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
997 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
998 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
999 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1000 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1001 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1002 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1003 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1007 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1009 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1010 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1012 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1013 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1014 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1015 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1017 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1018 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1022 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1025 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1026 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1027 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1028 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1029 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1030 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1032 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1033 that uses them. Affected options are:
1034 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1035 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1036 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1037 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1038 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1039 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1040 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1041 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1042 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1043 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1044 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1045 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1056 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1062 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1065 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1067 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1068 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1069 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1070 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1071 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1072 than the old method.
1073 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1075 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1076 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1077 rules (see bug #509756).
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1081 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1087 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1088 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1089 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1090 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1097 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1098 empty files. Closes: #490937
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1102 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1108 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1115 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1118 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1119 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1120 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1121 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1128 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1129 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1130 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1131 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1135 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1138 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1139 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1140 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1141 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1142 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1146 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1153 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1156 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1157 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1158 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1159 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1160 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1161 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1162 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1163 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1164 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1168 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1171 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1172 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1173 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1174 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1176 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1177 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1178 breaking backwards compatibility.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1182 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1185 message in perl 5.10.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1189 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1195 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1198 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1202 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1205 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1209 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1212 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1213 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1214 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1215 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1216 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1217 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1218 logging by dh_listpackages.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1222 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1225 run and there are no packages of that type.
1226 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1227 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1228 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1229 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1231 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1232 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1236 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1239 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1240 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1244 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1247 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1248 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1250 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1251 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1252 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1253 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1254 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1255 planned but not yet implemented.)
1256 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1257 if the Makefile has such a target.
1258 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1259 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1260 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1261 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1262 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1263 but not yet implemented.)
1264 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1265 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1266 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1267 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1268 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1270 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1272 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1273 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1275 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1276 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1277 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1282 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1285 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1286 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1290 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1292 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1293 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1294 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1298 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1304 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1310 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1313 just those installed by the program.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1317 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1320 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1321 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1325 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1328 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1329 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1330 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1331 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1335 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1338 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1339 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1343 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1346 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1347 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1351 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1354 with policy. Closes: #461392
1355 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1356 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1357 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1358 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1359 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1363 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1366 Closes: #460340, #460351
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1370 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1373 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1374 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1375 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1376 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1380 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1383 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1384 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1385 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1386 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1387 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1388 package build directory won't work.
1389 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1390 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1391 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1392 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1393 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1394 mode. Closes: #459426
1395 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1400 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1403 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1407 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1411 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1412 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1413 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1414 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1415 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1416 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1420 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1423 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1424 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1425 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1426 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1430 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1433 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1434 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1435 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1436 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1437 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1441 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1444 debian/package.triggers files.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1448 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1451 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1455 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1458 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1459 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1460 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1461 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1469 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1473 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1476 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1477 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1479 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1484 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1488 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1489 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1490 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1494 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1501 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1508 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1511 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1513 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1514 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1515 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1517 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1518 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1519 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1523 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1526 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1527 * Update urls to web page.
1528 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1529 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1530 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1531 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1535 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1538 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1539 - typo in alternatives call
1540 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1542 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1543 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1547 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1550 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1555 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1561 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1567 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1570 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1572 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1573 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1574 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1575 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1576 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1577 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1578 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1579 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1580 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1581 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1582 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1586 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1589 package install. Closes: #415717
1590 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1591 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1592 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1593 script and then remove the python files.
1594 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1595 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1596 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1597 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1598 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1599 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1600 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1601 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1602 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1603 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1604 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1605 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1606 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1610 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Correct typo in french translation
1616 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1617 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1619 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1621 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1622 Closes: #406921, #381940
1623 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1625 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1626 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1627 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1628 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1629 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1630 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1631 specified). Closes: #381851
1632 * Misc minor changes.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1643 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1644 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1648 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1654 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1655 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1658 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1659 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1661 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1662 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1663 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1664 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1668 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1671 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1674 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1678 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1684 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1690 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1691 a difficult situation.
1692 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1693 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1694 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1695 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1696 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1697 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1698 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1699 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1700 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1701 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1705 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Non-maintainer upload.
1708 * Update of dh_python
1709 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1710 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1712 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1713 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1714 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1715 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1716 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1718 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1720 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Non-maintainer upload.
1723 * Update of dh_python
1724 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1725 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1726 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1727 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1728 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1729 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1730 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1731 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1732 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1733 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1735 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1736 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1737 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1738 the not too-distant future).
1739 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1740 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1741 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1742 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1743 thus made the build fail.
1745 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1747 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Non-maintainer upload.
1750 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1752 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1754 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1757 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1758 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1759 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1760 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1761 package. Closes: #301424
1762 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1763 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1764 fonts). Closes: #372686
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1768 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1774 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1775 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1776 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1777 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1778 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1779 above, but already depends on that.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1783 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1786 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1787 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1788 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1789 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1790 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1794 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1800 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1806 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1807 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1811 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1814 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1818 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1822 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1823 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1824 new version (0.24.1).
1825 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1826 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1829 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1830 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1831 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1832 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1833 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1834 new directory on their own.
1835 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1836 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1840 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1843 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1844 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1845 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1846 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1850 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1853 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1854 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1855 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1856 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1857 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1861 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1867 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1871 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1872 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1876 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1877 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1881 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1883 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1884 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1886 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1887 ignored. Closes: #337664
1889 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1894 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1900 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1905 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1906 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1907 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1908 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1909 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1910 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1911 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1918 version. Closes: #350607
1919 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1920 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1921 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1922 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1929 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1930 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1931 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1935 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1942 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1948 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1951 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1955 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1958 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1959 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1960 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1961 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1962 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1963 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1967 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1970 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1971 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1976 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1979 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1983 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1986 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1990 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1993 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1994 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1995 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1996 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1997 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1998 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2002 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2006 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2007 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2008 link. Closes: #346405
2009 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2011 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2012 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2013 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2014 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2015 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2016 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2017 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2021 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2028 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2034 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2037 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2041 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2044 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2049 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2053 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2054 installed. Closes: #342033
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2058 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2061 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2062 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2063 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2068 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2074 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2080 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2084 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2085 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2086 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2090 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2093 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2098 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2105 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2111 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2114 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2115 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2116 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2117 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2118 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2119 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2120 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2122 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2129 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2130 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2137 in standard man dirs.
2138 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2151 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2170 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2173 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2174 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2181 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2182 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2183 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2185 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2187 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2202 mode. Closes: #324161
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2209 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2210 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2211 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2212 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2220 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2221 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2222 is necesary for sanity.
2223 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2224 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2231 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2232 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2239 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2252 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2253 released, so use at your own risk.
2254 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2255 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2257 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2258 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2259 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2260 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2261 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2262 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2263 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2264 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2265 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2266 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2267 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2268 including twice per config file line now..
2269 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2270 and simplfy the rules file.
2271 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2272 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2273 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2275 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2276 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2283 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2290 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2297 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2304 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2305 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2306 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2307 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2308 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2309 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2316 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2317 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2318 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2323 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2326 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2327 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2335 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2336 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2337 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2342 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2345 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2346 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2347 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2357 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2364 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2367 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2368 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2369 unknown. Closes: #282924
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Spanish man page updates.
2383 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2397 * dh_desktop: reindent
2398 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2399 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2411 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2417 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2421 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2424 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2425 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2429 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2451 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2458 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2459 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2460 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2461 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2462 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2463 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2465 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2466 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2467 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2468 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2469 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2470 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2471 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2472 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2473 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2474 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2475 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2476 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2477 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2478 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2479 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2480 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2491 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2494 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2498 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2501 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2508 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2515 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2525 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2540 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2541 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2542 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2546 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2549 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2556 but occasionally right and necessary.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2563 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2564 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2565 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2566 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2567 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2574 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2576 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2577 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2578 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2579 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2580 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2581 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2582 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2583 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2584 postinst scripts for udebs.
2585 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2592 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2594 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2595 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2599 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2605 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2612 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2619 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2622 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2626 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2629 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2633 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2636 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2639 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2640 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2644 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2650 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2653 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2657 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2660 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2661 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2662 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2664 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2666 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2667 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2668 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2672 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2675 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2680 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2683 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2684 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2685 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2690 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2702 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2705 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2706 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2707 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2708 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2709 associated -dbg packages.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2713 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2716 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2723 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2730 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2737 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2745 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2749 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2752 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2757 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2760 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2768 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2769 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2770 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2771 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2772 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2773 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2774 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2775 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2776 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2777 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2781 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2784 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2792 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2793 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2800 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2801 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2809 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2816 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2823 out section number. Closes: #204731
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2849 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2850 removal. Closes: #204286
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2857 renaming. Closes: #203548
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2861 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2864 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2865 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2881 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2887 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2890 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2891 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2892 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2899 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2900 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2917 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2920 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2928 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2935 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2937 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2938 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2945 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2950 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2953 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2965 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2972 it break hard links (see #188663).
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2979 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2989 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2993 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2994 debconf-mergetemplates
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2998 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3001 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3005 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3008 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3012 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3015 * Update debhelper(1).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3019 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3022 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3023 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3024 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3025 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3026 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3030 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3033 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3034 the shell. Closes: #178524
3035 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3039 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3042 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3046 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3049 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3053 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3056 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3057 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3058 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3059 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3064 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3067 files from installation.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3071 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3074 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3075 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3079 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3082 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3086 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3089 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3093 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3099 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3105 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3109 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3110 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3112 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3116 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3119 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3120 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3121 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3122 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3126 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3129 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3133 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3136 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3137 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3141 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3145 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3160 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3161 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3162 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3170 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3171 practice. Closes: #163303
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3175 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3191 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3193 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3194 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3195 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3196 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3197 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3201 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3204 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3209 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3215 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3222 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3225 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3230 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3236 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3242 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3248 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3255 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3258 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3259 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3260 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3261 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3266 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3272 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3282 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3283 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3287 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3290 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3291 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3292 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3293 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3294 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3298 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3301 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3303 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3308 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3311 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3315 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3318 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3319 right thing. Closes: #150644
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3323 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Stupid, evil typo.
3326 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3330 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3337 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3340 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3341 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3346 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3352 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3355 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3362 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3363 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3371 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3375 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3381 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3384 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3385 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3389 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3395 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Removing perl warning message.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3401 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3404 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3405 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3406 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3407 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3408 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3409 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3410 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3411 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3415 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3421 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3428 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3431 debconf-mergetemplate.
3432 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3433 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3437 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3440 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3441 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3442 dh_install, which ...
3443 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3444 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3445 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3446 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3447 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3448 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3449 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3450 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3451 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3452 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3453 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3454 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3455 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3456 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3457 other minor changes.
3458 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3459 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3460 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3461 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3462 course there's -X ..)
3463 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3464 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3465 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3467 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3468 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3469 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3470 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3471 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3476 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3485 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3489 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3495 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3501 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3507 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3513 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3516 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3517 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3518 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3519 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3521 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3522 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3526 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3532 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3535 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3539 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3542 upset. Closes: #131322
3544 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3546 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3549 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3550 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3551 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3552 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3553 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3554 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3555 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3556 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3557 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3558 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3559 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3560 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3561 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3562 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3563 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3565 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3569 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3572 - Better indenting of generated code.
3573 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3577 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3581 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3582 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3583 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3584 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3585 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3586 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3587 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3591 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3594 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3598 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3601 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3602 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3603 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3604 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3605 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3606 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3607 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3608 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3609 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3610 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3611 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3612 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3613 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3614 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3615 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3620 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3626 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3629 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3630 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3634 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3637 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3638 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3642 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3648 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3651 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3652 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3653 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3654 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3655 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3660 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3666 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3669 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3673 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3676 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3681 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3690 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3694 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3700 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3704 Also some indentation fixes.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3708 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3711 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3712 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3713 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3714 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3715 Closes: #106514, #85520
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3719 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3725 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3731 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3737 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3743 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3749 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3752 change it in debhelper v4..
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3756 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3762 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3765 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3769 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3772 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3776 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3782 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3785 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3786 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3787 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3788 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3789 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3790 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3791 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3792 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3793 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3794 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3795 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3796 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3800 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3803 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3807 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3814 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3817 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3818 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3819 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3820 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3821 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3822 program those options go to. So, for example,
3823 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3824 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3825 something complex. Closes: #89311
3826 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3830 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3833 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3834 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3835 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3839 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3842 through loop. Closes: #98598
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3846 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Missing semi-colon.
3849 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3850 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3854 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3857 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3858 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3859 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3863 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3866 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3867 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3871 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3874 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3878 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3881 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3882 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3886 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3889 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3890 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3891 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3895 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3898 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3899 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3900 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3904 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3907 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3911 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3917 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3923 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3929 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3935 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3938 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3942 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3945 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3946 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3947 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3948 followed. Closes: #85483
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3952 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3954 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3955 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3956 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3960 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3963 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3964 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3965 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3966 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3967 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3968 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3969 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3970 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3971 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3972 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3973 Closes: #88464, #77743
3974 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3975 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3976 us to deal with that gracefully.
3977 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3979 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3980 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3981 a while, Closes: #51225
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3985 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3991 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3994 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3998 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4002 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4007 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4010 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4011 don't make packlist files.
4012 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4013 debhelper coding standards.
4014 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4015 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4019 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4022 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4026 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4029 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4030 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4031 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4032 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4033 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4034 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4035 but is mildly deprecated.
4036 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4037 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4038 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4039 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4040 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4041 switching to statoverrides..
4042 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4043 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4044 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4045 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4046 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4047 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4049 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4050 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4051 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4052 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4053 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4054 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4055 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4056 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4057 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4059 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4060 variable names, pod man pages).
4061 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4062 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4063 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4064 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4065 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4066 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4067 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4071 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4087 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4093 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4094 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4095 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4101 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4102 they were previously ignored.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4108 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4109 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4115 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4116 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4117 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4121 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4123 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4129 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4130 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4136 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4137 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4138 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4139 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4140 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4141 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4142 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4143 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4144 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4145 it is an obsolete program.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4151 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4155 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4159 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4161 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4165 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4169 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4171 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4175 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * typo: Closes, #78567
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4199 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4202 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4203 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4204 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4205 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4206 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4213 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4221 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4222 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4223 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4224 backwards-compatibility.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4228 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4231 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4232 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4233 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4234 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4235 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4236 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4238 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4239 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4240 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4242 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4244 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4245 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4246 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4247 should now be raised to severity important..
4248 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4249 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4253 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4256 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4261 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4267 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4279 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4289 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4290 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4291 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4292 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4296 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4302 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4305 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4306 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4307 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4308 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4309 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4310 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4318 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4322 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4328 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4331 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4339 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4340 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4341 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4342 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4350 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4353 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4356 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4357 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4360 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4362 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4363 the TODO entry about it.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4377 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4378 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4385 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4386 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4387 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4388 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4392 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4408 (this appears to be logal).
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4415 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4416 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4417 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4418 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4431 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4432 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4433 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4434 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4447 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4458 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4461 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4462 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4463 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4484 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4485 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4486 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4487 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4488 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4489 notice until v2 is complete.
4490 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4491 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4492 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4493 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4494 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4495 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4497 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4498 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4499 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4500 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4520 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4531 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4534 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4535 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4536 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4537 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4545 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4546 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4547 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4555 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4556 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4563 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4570 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4584 depend on the build and install targets.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4591 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4608 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4614 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4617 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4618 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4619 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4620 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4621 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4622 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4624 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4625 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4626 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4627 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4628 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4629 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4630 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4634 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4640 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4646 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4649 right place. Closes: #55065
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4653 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4660 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4663 * Copyright date updates.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4667 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4670 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4675 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4681 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4688 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4694 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4700 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4706 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4709 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4710 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4711 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4712 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4713 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4714 bits until all files have been registered.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4718 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_installmanpages:
4721 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4722 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4723 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4724 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4725 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4726 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4727 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4728 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4729 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4730 otherwise change the result at all.
4732 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4733 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4734 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4735 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4736 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4741 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4747 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4750 act on files that don't exist.
4751 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4752 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4753 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4755 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4756 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4757 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4758 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4762 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4768 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4774 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4777 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4781 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4784 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4786 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4787 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4788 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4792 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4795 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4796 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4797 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4798 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4799 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4800 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4801 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4803 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4805 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4809 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4816 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4831 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4850 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4851 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4852 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4853 I made some changes, though:
4854 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4855 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4856 that is a clear violation of policy.
4857 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4858 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4859 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4860 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4861 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4862 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4863 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4864 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4865 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4867 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4880 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4887 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4888 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4909 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4910 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4911 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4912 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4913 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4914 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4915 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4929 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4930 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4943 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4950 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4951 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4955 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4957 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4966 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4973 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4974 for the dependancies to be generated.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4981 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4985 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4988 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4989 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4990 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4998 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4999 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5003 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5015 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5018 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5022 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5028 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5031 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5032 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5033 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5034 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5035 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5036 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5037 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5038 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5039 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5040 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5041 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5042 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5049 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5050 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5052 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5053 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5054 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5055 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5056 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5057 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5059 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5060 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5064 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5067 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5078 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5081 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5086 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5089 for building debhelper.
5090 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5101 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5104 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5111 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5112 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5113 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5114 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5115 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5116 it's always available.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5120 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5123 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5124 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5125 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5129 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5132 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5133 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5137 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5143 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5146 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5150 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5159 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5160 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5161 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5165 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5168 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5173 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5176 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5177 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5179 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5180 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5184 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5196 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5199 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5203 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5206 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5207 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5209 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5213 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5216 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5217 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5218 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5222 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5225 things if CDPATH is set.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5229 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5238 seems to make sense for the transition.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5242 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5245 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5250 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5253 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5254 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5258 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5261 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5265 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5268 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5269 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5270 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5271 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5275 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5281 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5284 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5285 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5286 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5287 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5288 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5289 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5290 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5291 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5292 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5293 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5301 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5302 * README: mention doc/v2
5303 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5304 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5310 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5311 be using this script RSN.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5318 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5319 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5320 more than 1 init script.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5327 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Changed perl version detection.
5334 * Changed call to find.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5341 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5343 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * Really include dh_installpam.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5357 * Wrote man page for same.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5361 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5364 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5365 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5377 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5380 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5381 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5382 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5383 x bit was being set!
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5390 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5391 well. (Closes: 38900)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5395 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5398 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5399 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5409 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5416 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5422 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5425 help from Julian Gilbey.
5426 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5427 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5428 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5429 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5430 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5431 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5432 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5437 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5443 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5450 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5465 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5472 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5479 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5489 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5492 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5496 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5502 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5508 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5511 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5512 may be deleted. (#35845)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5516 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * Various man page enhancements.
5519 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5527 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5528 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5535 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5536 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5537 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5539 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5540 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Another very minor typo fix.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5557 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * Very minor typo fix.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5563 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5566 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5567 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5580 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5581 variables properly (#34850).
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5585 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5594 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5595 (automatically generated by build process).
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5601 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5605 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5608 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5609 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5611 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5618 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * README: minor typo fix.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5631 leave it at that. :-)
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5650 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5651 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5652 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5659 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5666 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5673 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5674 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5675 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5676 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5680 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5683 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5684 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5685 Craig Small for spotting this.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5692 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5693 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5697 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5706 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5710 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5712 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5713 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5714 working on the last version of debhelper.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5718 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5721 being made. (#23255)
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5725 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5734 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5738 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5741 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5742 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5743 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5744 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5751 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5752 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5753 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5754 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5756 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5757 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5759 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5764 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5776 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5779 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5780 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5781 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5782 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5783 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5784 suidregister actually supports it.
5785 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5786 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5790 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5797 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5800 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5801 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5802 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5803 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5804 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5805 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5806 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5810 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5812 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5813 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5817 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5820 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5821 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5822 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5823 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5830 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5832 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5833 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5834 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5835 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5836 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5837 effect, either. (#30118)
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5841 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5847 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5850 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5851 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5861 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5864 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5865 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5866 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5867 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5871 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5874 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5875 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5879 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5885 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5888 packages, painlessly.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5892 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5898 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5904 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * The perl conversion is complete.
5914 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5916 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5917 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5918 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5923 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5926 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5927 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5928 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5932 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5935 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5937 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5939 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5940 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5944 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5947 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5948 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5952 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5958 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5961 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5962 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5963 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5964 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5965 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5969 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5972 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5973 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5974 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5975 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5979 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5982 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5986 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5989 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5990 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5991 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5992 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5993 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5994 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5995 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5996 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6000 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6006 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6009 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6010 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6011 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6016 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6019 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6023 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6026 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6030 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6033 sections of shared libraries.
6034 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6035 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6036 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6037 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6038 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6039 things you don't want them to.
6040 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6041 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6045 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6048 shared libraries. (#26414)
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6052 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6054 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6055 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6056 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6057 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6061 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6065 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6067 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6068 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6069 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6070 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6071 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6075 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6078 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6082 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6085 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6086 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6091 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6094 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6098 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6101 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6102 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6103 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6104 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6105 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6107 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6108 remove debian/files properly.
6109 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6110 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6111 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6112 * Removed bogus menu file.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6116 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6119 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6123 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6126 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6127 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6128 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6129 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6130 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6131 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6135 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6138 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6139 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6140 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6141 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6152 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6155 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6156 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6158 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6159 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6160 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6161 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6162 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6163 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6167 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6170 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6171 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6172 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6173 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6174 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6175 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6176 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6177 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6178 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6179 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6180 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6181 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6182 passed any switches.
6183 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6187 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6190 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6191 at all for a long while.
6192 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6193 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6194 large chunks in the process.
6195 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6196 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6197 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6202 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6205 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6207 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6212 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6215 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6216 that don't always have the same files in them.
6217 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6218 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6219 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6223 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6227 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6228 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6229 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6230 updating 27 man pages.
6231 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6232 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6233 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6234 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6235 programs act on. (#25247)
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6239 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6243 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6244 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6245 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6246 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6247 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6248 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6253 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6260 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6267 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6270 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6274 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6280 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6283 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6284 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6285 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6286 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6287 package by accident.
6288 * Is version 1.0 next?
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6292 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6295 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6296 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6300 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6303 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6304 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6305 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6306 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6307 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6309 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6314 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6317 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6318 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6322 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6325 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6329 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6332 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6333 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6338 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6344 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6347 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6348 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6353 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6359 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6362 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6363 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6364 past week. Thanks, guys!
6366 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6367 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6368 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6369 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6370 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6371 would do in the same situation.
6372 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6373 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6375 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6377 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6378 permissions changed.
6379 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6380 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6381 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6382 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6383 files are treated identically.
6384 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6385 * Minor man page fixes.
6386 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6387 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6388 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6392 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6395 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6396 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6397 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6398 use -X multiple times, too.
6399 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6400 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6404 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6407 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6408 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6412 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6415 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6419 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6422 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6423 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6424 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6425 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6426 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6427 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6428 shape if you're starting a new package.
6430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6432 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6434 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6435 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6439 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6441 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6442 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6443 because of missing symlinks.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6447 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6453 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6456 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6457 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6458 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6459 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6460 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6462 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6463 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6467 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6469 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6470 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6471 to be changed after the fact :-)
6472 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6476 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6478 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6479 no version string after the -V.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6483 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6485 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6486 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6491 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6494 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6498 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6501 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6502 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6503 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6504 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6505 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6506 I always welcome corrections!
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6510 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6516 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6519 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6520 * Documented this new switch.
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6524 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6527 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6528 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6529 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6530 no packages use the old behavior.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6534 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6537 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6538 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6542 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6545 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6549 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6555 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6558 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6562 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6564 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6565 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6566 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6567 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6571 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6577 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6580 into the source package by accident.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6584 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6587 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6588 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6589 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6590 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6591 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6592 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6597 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6601 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6602 inspired to implement some of it.
6603 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6607 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6610 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6614 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6617 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6618 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6622 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6624 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6625 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6626 have done.) (#17598)
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6630 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6642 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6645 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6649 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6652 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6653 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6657 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6659 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6660 argument processor in perl.
6661 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6662 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6663 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6664 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6668 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6670 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6671 type directories. (#16933)
6672 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6673 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6674 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6675 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6676 are supported. (#16935)
6677 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6682 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6684 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6685 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6689 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6693 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6694 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6695 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6696 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6697 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6698 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6702 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6704 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6705 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6706 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6708 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6709 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6710 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6711 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6712 a given package, or -i or -a.
6713 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6714 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6715 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6716 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6717 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6718 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6719 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6720 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6721 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6723 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6724 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6725 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6729 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6732 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6733 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6738 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6741 does not have a section.
6743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6745 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6747 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6748 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6749 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6750 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6754 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6756 * Fixed typo #16215.
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6760 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6762 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6763 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6764 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6765 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6766 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6767 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6775 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6776 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6777 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6782 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6784 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6788 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6794 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6797 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6798 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6799 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6800 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6801 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6802 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6806 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6812 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6814 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6815 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6819 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6821 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6822 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6823 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6824 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6828 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6831 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6835 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6837 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6841 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6844 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6848 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6851 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6855 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6857 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6861 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6864 postinst, postrm, etc.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6868 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6874 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6876 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6877 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6878 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6879 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6880 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6881 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6885 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6887 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6888 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6889 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6893 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6895 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6896 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6900 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6902 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6903 installing package files into.
6904 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6909 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6911 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6913 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6917 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6919 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6923 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6925 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6926 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6930 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6932 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6933 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6934 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6935 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6936 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6940 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6942 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6943 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6944 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6945 multiple binary packages.
6946 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6947 should rebuild them with this version.
6948 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6952 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6954 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6955 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6959 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6961 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6962 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6966 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6968 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6969 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6970 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6971 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6972 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6973 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6974 debian/README.debian.
6975 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6976 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6977 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6978 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6979 in a few situations.)
6981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6983 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6985 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6989 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6991 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6995 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6997 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6998 * Fixed several man pages.
7000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7002 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7004 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7005 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7006 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7010 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7012 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7013 is ready for general use.
7014 * Added man pages for all commands.
7015 * Multiple binary package support.
7016 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7017 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7018 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7020 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7021 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7022 auto-installed as parameters.
7023 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7025 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7028 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7029 the package build directory it is to act on.
7030 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7031 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7032 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7036 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7038 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7039 ready to replace debstd.
7041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400