1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
28 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
30 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
31 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
33 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
34 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
35 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
37 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
39 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
42 * update french translation.
43 * Fix french misspelling.
44 * French translation update after massive man page typography
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
48 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
54 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
58 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
60 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
64 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
66 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
67 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
68 introduced by the fix to #527990.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
72 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
75 changes are planned for that mode.
76 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
77 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
78 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
79 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
80 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
81 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
82 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
83 (genesis) still uses them.
84 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
85 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
86 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
87 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
88 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
89 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
90 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
91 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
92 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
93 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
94 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
95 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
96 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
97 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
98 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
99 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
100 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
101 commands. (See #570039)
102 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
104 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
109 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
113 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
114 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
115 in control file or debhelper config files.
116 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
120 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
123 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
124 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
128 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
131 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
135 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
138 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
139 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
143 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Updated French translation.
146 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
147 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
148 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
149 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
151 * Typo. Closes: #571968
152 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
153 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
154 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
155 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
156 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
157 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
158 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
159 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
160 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
162 * dh: Improve documentation.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
166 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
168 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
169 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
170 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
174 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
177 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
181 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
184 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
188 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
191 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
192 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
193 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
194 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
195 options that they do not support.
196 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
197 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
198 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
199 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
200 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
201 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
206 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
210 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
211 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
212 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
213 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
214 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
215 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
216 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
217 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
218 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
222 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
225 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
226 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
227 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
228 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
232 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Typo. Closes: #558654
235 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
236 installed. Closes: #558782
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
240 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
243 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
244 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
245 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
246 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
247 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
251 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
253 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
254 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
255 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
256 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
260 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
263 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
264 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
268 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
270 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
274 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
276 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
277 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
278 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
279 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
280 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
281 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
282 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
283 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
284 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
285 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
286 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
287 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
288 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
289 time soon.) Closes: #554509
290 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
292 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
293 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
294 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
295 document id. Closes: #555677
296 * Typo. Closes: #555659
297 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
298 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
299 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
300 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
302 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
303 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
304 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
309 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
312 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
313 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
314 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
315 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
316 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
317 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
318 translation (#494300 part 2)
321 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
323 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
324 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
325 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
326 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
327 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
331 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
334 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
335 (It was only run once due to logging.)
336 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
337 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
338 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
339 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
340 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
341 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
342 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
343 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
344 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
345 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
349 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
353 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
356 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
357 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
361 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
364 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
365 flag with arch all/any packages.
366 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
367 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
368 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
369 situation. Closes: #540794
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
373 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
377 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
378 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
379 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
380 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
381 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
384 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
385 the default. Closes: #538201
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
390 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
394 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
395 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
396 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
397 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
398 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
400 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
401 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
402 * Above Closes: #491117
403 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
408 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
414 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
415 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
416 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
420 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
423 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
424 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
425 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
426 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
427 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
432 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
435 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
436 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
440 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
442 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
446 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
448 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
449 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
451 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
452 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
453 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
457 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
459 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
460 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
464 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
470 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
472 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
473 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
474 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
479 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
481 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
485 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
488 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
489 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
490 created by using `python' first during build and install.
492 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
497 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
499 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
503 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
505 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
506 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
510 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
512 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
516 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
518 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
522 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
524 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
525 contributed by Modestas Vainius
526 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
527 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
528 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
529 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
530 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
531 that support it. Closes: #480577
532 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
533 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
534 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
536 - Adds support for cmake.
537 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
538 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
540 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
542 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
543 that use them. The options are:
544 --sourcedir, --destdir
545 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
546 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
547 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
548 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
549 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
553 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
559 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
562 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
563 default. Closes: #537140
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
567 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
570 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
571 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
575 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
578 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
582 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
585 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
589 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
592 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
594 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
595 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
596 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
600 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
603 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
604 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
605 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
609 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
612 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
613 warning or deprecation message.
614 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
615 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
616 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
617 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
618 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
619 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
620 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
621 Closes: #534639, #357434
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
625 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
631 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
634 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
635 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
636 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
637 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
639 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
640 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
641 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
645 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
651 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
658 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
661 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
665 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
669 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
670 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
672 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
673 file support. Closes: #494914
674 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
678 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
681 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
682 parameters. Closes: #527256
683 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
684 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
685 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
689 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
693 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
694 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
695 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
699 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
702 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
703 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
704 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
708 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
711 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
712 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
714 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
715 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
716 by triggers). Closes: #521181
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
720 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
724 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
728 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
731 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
732 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
733 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
734 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
739 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
745 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
748 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
749 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
750 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
751 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
752 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
754 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
755 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
756 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
757 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
758 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
759 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
763 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
766 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
767 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
768 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
769 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
770 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
772 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
776 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
778 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
782 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
784 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
785 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
786 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
787 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
788 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
789 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
790 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
791 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
792 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
793 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
794 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
798 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
800 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
801 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
803 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
804 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
805 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
806 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
808 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
809 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
813 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
815 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
816 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
817 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
818 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
819 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
820 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
821 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
823 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
824 that uses them. Affected options are:
825 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
826 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
827 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
828 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
829 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
830 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
831 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
832 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
833 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
834 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
835 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
836 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
840 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
847 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
853 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
855 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
856 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
858 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
859 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
860 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
861 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
862 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
864 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
866 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
867 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
868 rules (see bug #509756).
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
872 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
878 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
879 * Typo. Closes: #493062
880 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
881 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
885 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
888 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
889 empty files. Closes: #490937
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
893 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
906 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
909 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
910 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
911 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
912 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
917 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
919 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
920 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
921 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
922 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
926 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
929 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
930 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
931 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
932 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
933 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
937 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
944 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
946 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
947 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
948 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
949 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
950 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
951 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
952 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
953 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
954 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
955 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
959 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
962 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
963 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
964 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
965 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
967 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
968 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
969 breaking backwards compatibility.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
973 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
976 message in perl 5.10.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
980 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
986 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Convert copyright file to new format.
989 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
993 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
996 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1000 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1003 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1004 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1005 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1006 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1007 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1008 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1009 logging by dh_listpackages.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1013 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1016 run and there are no packages of that type.
1017 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1018 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1019 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1020 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1022 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1023 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1027 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1030 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1031 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1035 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1038 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1039 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1041 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1042 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1043 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1044 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1045 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1046 planned but not yet implemented.)
1047 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1048 if the Makefile has such a target.
1049 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1050 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1051 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1052 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1053 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1054 but not yet implemented.)
1055 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1056 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1057 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1058 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1059 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1061 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1063 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1064 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1066 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1067 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1068 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1073 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1076 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1077 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1081 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1083 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1084 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1085 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1089 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1095 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1101 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1104 just those installed by the program.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1108 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1111 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1112 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1116 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1119 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1120 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1121 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1122 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1126 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1129 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1130 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1134 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1137 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1138 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1142 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1145 with policy. Closes: #461392
1146 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1147 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1148 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1149 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1150 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1154 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1157 Closes: #460340, #460351
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1161 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1164 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1165 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1166 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1167 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1171 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1174 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1175 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1176 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1177 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1178 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1179 package build directory won't work.
1180 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1181 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1182 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1183 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1184 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1185 mode. Closes: #459426
1186 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1191 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1194 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1198 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1202 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1203 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1204 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1205 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1206 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1207 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1211 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1214 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1215 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1216 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1217 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1224 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1225 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1226 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1227 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1228 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1235 debian/package.triggers files.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1239 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1242 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1246 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1249 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1250 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1251 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1252 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1260 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1264 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1267 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1268 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1270 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1279 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1280 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1281 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1285 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1299 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1302 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1304 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1305 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1306 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1308 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1309 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1310 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1317 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1318 * Update urls to web page.
1319 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1320 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1321 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1322 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1326 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1329 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1330 - typo in alternatives call
1331 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1333 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1334 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1338 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1341 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1346 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1358 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1361 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1363 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1364 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1365 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1366 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1367 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1368 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1369 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1370 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1371 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1372 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1373 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1377 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1380 package install. Closes: #415717
1381 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1382 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1383 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1384 script and then remove the python files.
1385 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1386 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1387 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1388 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1389 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1390 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1391 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1392 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1393 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1394 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1395 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1396 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1397 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1401 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Correct typo in french translation
1407 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1408 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1410 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1412 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1413 Closes: #406921, #381940
1414 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1416 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1417 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1418 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1419 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1420 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1421 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1422 specified). Closes: #381851
1423 * Misc minor changes.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1434 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1435 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1439 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1445 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1446 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1449 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1450 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1452 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1453 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1454 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1455 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1459 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1462 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1465 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1469 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1475 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1481 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1482 a difficult situation.
1483 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1484 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1485 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1486 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1487 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1488 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1489 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1490 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1491 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1492 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1496 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Non-maintainer upload.
1499 * Update of dh_python
1500 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1501 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1503 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1504 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1505 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1506 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1507 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1509 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1511 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Non-maintainer upload.
1514 * Update of dh_python
1515 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1516 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1517 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1518 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1519 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1520 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1521 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1522 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1523 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1524 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1526 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1527 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1528 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1529 the not too-distant future).
1530 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1531 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1532 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1533 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1534 thus made the build fail.
1536 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1538 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Non-maintainer upload.
1541 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1543 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1545 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1548 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1549 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1550 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1551 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1552 package. Closes: #301424
1553 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1554 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1555 fonts). Closes: #372686
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1559 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1565 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1566 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1567 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1568 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1569 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1570 above, but already depends on that.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1574 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1577 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1578 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1579 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1580 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1581 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1585 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1591 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1597 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1598 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1602 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1605 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1609 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1613 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1614 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1615 new version (0.24.1).
1616 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1617 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1620 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1621 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1622 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1623 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1624 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1625 new directory on their own.
1626 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1627 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1631 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1634 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1635 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1636 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1637 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1641 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1644 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1645 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1646 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1647 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1648 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1652 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1658 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1662 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1663 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1667 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1668 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1672 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1674 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1675 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1677 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1678 ignored. Closes: #337664
1680 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1691 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1696 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1697 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1698 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1699 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1700 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1701 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1702 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1709 version. Closes: #350607
1710 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1711 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1712 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1713 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1717 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1720 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1721 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1722 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1726 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1733 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1739 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1742 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1749 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1750 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1751 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1752 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1753 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1754 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1758 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1761 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1762 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1770 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1774 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1777 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1784 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1785 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1786 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1787 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1788 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1789 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1793 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1797 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1798 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1799 link. Closes: #346405
1800 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1802 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1803 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1804 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1805 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1806 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1807 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1808 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1819 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1828 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1832 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1835 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1840 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1844 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1845 installed. Closes: #342033
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1849 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1852 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1853 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1854 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1865 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1871 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1875 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1876 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1877 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1881 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1884 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1889 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1896 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1902 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1905 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1906 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1907 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1908 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1909 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1910 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1911 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1913 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1917 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1920 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1921 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1928 in standard man dirs.
1929 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1942 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1961 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1964 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1965 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1972 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1973 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1974 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1976 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1978 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1993 mode. Closes: #324161
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2000 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2001 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2002 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2003 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2011 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2012 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2013 is necesary for sanity.
2014 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2015 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2022 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2023 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2030 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2043 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2044 released, so use at your own risk.
2045 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2046 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2048 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2049 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2050 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2051 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2052 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2053 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2054 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2055 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2056 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2057 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2058 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2059 including twice per config file line now..
2060 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2061 and simplfy the rules file.
2062 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2063 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2064 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2066 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2067 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2074 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2081 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2088 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2095 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2096 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2097 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2098 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2099 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2100 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2107 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2108 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2109 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2114 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2117 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2118 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2126 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2127 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2128 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2136 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2137 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2138 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2142 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2158 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2159 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2160 unknown. Closes: #282924
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Spanish man page updates.
2174 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2188 * dh_desktop: reindent
2189 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2190 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2202 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2206 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2208 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2212 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2215 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2216 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2220 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2242 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2249 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2250 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2251 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2252 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2253 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2254 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2256 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2257 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2258 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2259 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2260 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2261 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2262 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2263 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2264 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2265 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2266 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2267 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2268 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2269 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2270 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2271 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2285 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2289 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2292 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2299 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2306 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2331 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2332 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2333 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2337 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2340 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2347 but occasionally right and necessary.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2351 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2354 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2355 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2356 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2357 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2358 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2362 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2365 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2367 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2368 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2369 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2370 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2371 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2372 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2373 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2374 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2375 postinst scripts for udebs.
2376 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2383 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2385 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2386 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2390 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2396 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2413 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2417 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2420 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2424 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2427 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2430 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2431 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2435 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2444 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2451 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2452 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2453 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2455 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2457 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2458 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2459 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2466 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2474 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2475 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2476 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2487 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2496 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2497 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2498 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2499 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2500 associated -dbg packages.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2507 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2514 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2521 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2528 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2536 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2543 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2551 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2559 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2560 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2561 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2562 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2563 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2564 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2565 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2566 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2567 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2568 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2575 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2583 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2584 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2591 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2592 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2600 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2607 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2614 out section number. Closes: #204731
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2640 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2641 removal. Closes: #204286
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2648 renaming. Closes: #203548
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2655 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2656 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2672 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2678 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2681 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2682 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2683 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2690 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2691 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2711 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2719 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2726 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2728 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2729 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2736 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2744 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2756 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2763 it break hard links (see #188663).
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2770 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2774 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2780 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2784 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2785 debconf-mergetemplates
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2789 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2792 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2799 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2806 * Update debhelper(1).
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2810 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2813 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2814 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2815 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2816 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2817 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2821 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2824 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2825 the shell. Closes: #178524
2826 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2830 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2833 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2837 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2840 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2844 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2847 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2848 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2849 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2850 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2858 files from installation.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2862 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2865 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2866 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2873 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2877 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2880 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2884 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2890 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2896 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2900 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2901 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2903 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2907 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2910 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2911 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2912 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2913 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2917 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2920 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2924 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2927 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2928 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2932 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2936 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2951 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2952 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2953 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2958 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2961 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2962 practice. Closes: #163303
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2966 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2982 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2984 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2985 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2986 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2987 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2988 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2995 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3016 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3049 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3050 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3051 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3052 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3073 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3074 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3081 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3082 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3083 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3084 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3085 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3089 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3092 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3094 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3102 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3109 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3110 right thing. Closes: #150644
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Stupid, evil typo.
3117 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3128 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3131 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3132 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3146 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3150 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3153 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3154 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3162 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3172 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3175 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3176 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3180 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3186 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Removing perl warning message.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3192 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3195 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3196 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3197 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3198 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3199 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3200 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3201 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3202 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3206 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3212 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3219 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3222 debconf-mergetemplate.
3223 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3224 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3228 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3231 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3232 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3233 dh_install, which ...
3234 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3235 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3236 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3237 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3238 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3239 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3240 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3241 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3242 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3243 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3244 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3245 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3246 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3247 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3248 other minor changes.
3249 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3250 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3251 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3252 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3253 course there's -X ..)
3254 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3255 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3256 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3258 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3259 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3260 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3261 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3262 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3267 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3273 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3276 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3292 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3298 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3304 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3307 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3308 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3309 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3310 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3312 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3313 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3317 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3323 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3326 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3330 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3333 upset. Closes: #131322
3335 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3337 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3340 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3341 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3342 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3343 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3344 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3345 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3346 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3347 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3348 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3349 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3350 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3351 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3352 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3353 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3354 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3356 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3360 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3363 - Better indenting of generated code.
3364 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3368 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3372 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3373 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3374 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3375 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3376 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3377 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3378 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3382 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3385 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3392 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3393 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3394 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3395 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3396 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3397 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3398 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3399 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3400 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3401 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3402 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3403 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3404 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3405 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3406 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3411 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3417 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3420 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3421 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3425 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3428 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3429 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3433 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3439 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3442 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3443 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3444 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3445 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3446 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3451 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3457 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3460 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3467 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3481 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3485 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3491 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3495 Also some indentation fixes.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3499 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3502 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3503 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3504 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3505 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3506 Closes: #106514, #85520
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3510 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3516 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3522 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3528 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3534 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3540 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3543 change it in debhelper v4..
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3547 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3553 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3556 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3563 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3567 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3573 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3576 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3577 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3578 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3579 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3580 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3581 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3582 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3583 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3584 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3585 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3586 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3587 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3591 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3594 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3605 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3608 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3609 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3610 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3611 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3612 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3613 program those options go to. So, for example,
3614 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3615 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3616 something complex. Closes: #89311
3617 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3621 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3624 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3625 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3626 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3630 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3633 through loop. Closes: #98598
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3637 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Missing semi-colon.
3640 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3641 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3648 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3649 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3650 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3654 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3657 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3658 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3662 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3665 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3669 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3672 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3673 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3677 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3680 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3681 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3682 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3686 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3689 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3690 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3691 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3695 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3698 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3702 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3708 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3714 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3720 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3726 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3729 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3733 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3736 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3737 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3738 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3739 followed. Closes: #85483
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3743 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3745 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3746 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3747 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3751 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3754 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3755 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3756 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3757 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3758 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3759 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3760 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3761 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3762 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3763 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3764 Closes: #88464, #77743
3765 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3766 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3767 us to deal with that gracefully.
3768 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3770 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3771 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3772 a while, Closes: #51225
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3776 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3782 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3785 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3789 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3793 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3798 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3801 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3802 don't make packlist files.
3803 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3804 debhelper coding standards.
3805 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3806 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3810 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3813 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3817 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3820 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3821 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3822 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3823 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3824 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3825 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3826 but is mildly deprecated.
3827 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3828 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3829 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3830 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3831 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3832 switching to statoverrides..
3833 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3834 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3835 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3836 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3837 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3838 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3840 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3841 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3842 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3843 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3844 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3845 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3846 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3847 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3848 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3850 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3851 variable names, pod man pages).
3852 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3853 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3854 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3855 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3856 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3857 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3858 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3878 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3884 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3885 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3886 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3892 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3893 they were previously ignored.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3899 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3900 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3904 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3906 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3907 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3908 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3912 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3914 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3918 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3920 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3921 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3925 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3927 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3928 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3929 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3930 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3931 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3932 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3933 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3934 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3935 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3936 it is an obsolete program.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3942 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3950 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3956 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3960 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3962 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3966 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * typo: Closes, #78567
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3990 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3993 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3994 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3995 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3996 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3997 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4004 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4012 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4013 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4014 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4015 backwards-compatibility.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4022 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4023 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4024 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4025 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4026 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4027 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4029 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4030 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4031 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4033 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4035 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4036 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4037 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4038 should now be raised to severity important..
4039 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4040 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4047 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4058 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4064 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4080 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4081 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4082 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4083 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4087 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4093 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4096 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4097 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4098 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4099 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4100 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4101 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4109 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4113 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4122 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4130 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4131 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4132 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4133 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4141 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4144 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4147 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4148 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4151 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4153 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4154 the TODO entry about it.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4168 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4169 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4176 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4177 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4178 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4179 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4199 (this appears to be logal).
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4206 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4207 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4208 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4209 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4222 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4223 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4224 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4225 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4238 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4252 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4253 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4254 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4275 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4276 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4277 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4278 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4279 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4280 notice until v2 is complete.
4281 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4282 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4283 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4284 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4285 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4286 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4288 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4289 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4290 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4291 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4311 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4325 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4326 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4327 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4328 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4336 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4337 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4338 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4346 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4347 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4354 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4361 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4375 depend on the build and install targets.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4382 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4405 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4408 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4409 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4410 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4411 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4412 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4413 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4415 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4416 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4417 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4418 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4419 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4420 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4421 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4425 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4431 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4437 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4440 right place. Closes: #55065
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4454 * Copyright date updates.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4461 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4479 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4497 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4500 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4501 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4502 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4503 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4504 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4505 bits until all files have been registered.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_installmanpages:
4512 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4513 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4514 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4515 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4516 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4517 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4518 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4519 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4520 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4521 otherwise change the result at all.
4523 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4524 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4525 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4526 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4527 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4532 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4538 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4541 act on files that don't exist.
4542 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4543 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4544 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4546 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4547 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4548 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4549 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4553 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4559 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4565 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4568 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4572 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4575 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4577 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4578 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4579 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4583 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4586 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4587 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4588 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4589 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4590 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4591 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4592 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4594 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4596 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4600 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4607 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4622 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4632 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4641 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4642 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4643 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4644 I made some changes, though:
4645 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4646 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4647 that is a clear violation of policy.
4648 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4649 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4650 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4651 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4652 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4653 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4654 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4655 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4656 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4658 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4662 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4671 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4675 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4678 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4679 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4700 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4701 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4702 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4703 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4704 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4705 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4706 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4720 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4721 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4725 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4734 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4741 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4742 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4748 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4757 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4764 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4765 for the dependancies to be generated.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4772 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4779 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4780 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4781 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4789 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4790 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4794 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4809 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4822 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4823 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4824 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4825 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4826 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4827 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4828 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4829 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4830 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4831 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4832 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4833 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4840 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4841 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4843 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4844 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4845 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4846 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4847 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4848 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4850 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4851 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4858 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4869 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4872 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4880 for building debhelper.
4881 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4895 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4902 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4903 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4904 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4905 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4906 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4907 it's always available.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4911 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4914 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4915 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4916 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4923 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4924 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4937 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4950 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4951 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4952 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4956 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4959 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4967 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4968 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4970 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4971 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4990 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4994 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4997 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4998 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5000 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5007 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5008 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5009 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5016 things if CDPATH is set.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5020 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5029 seems to make sense for the transition.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5033 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5036 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5044 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5045 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5052 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5056 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5059 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5060 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5061 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5062 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5075 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5076 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5077 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5078 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5079 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5080 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5081 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5083 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5084 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5092 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5093 * README: mention doc/v2
5094 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5095 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5101 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5102 be using this script RSN.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5109 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5110 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5111 more than 1 init script.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5118 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Changed perl version detection.
5125 * Changed call to find.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5132 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5134 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Really include dh_installpam.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5148 * Wrote man page for same.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5155 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5156 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5171 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5172 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5173 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5174 x bit was being set!
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5181 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5182 well. (Closes: 38900)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5189 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5190 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5200 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5213 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5216 help from Julian Gilbey.
5217 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5218 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5219 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5220 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5221 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5222 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5223 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5256 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5263 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5270 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5280 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5283 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5302 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5303 may be deleted. (#35845)
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5307 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Various man page enhancements.
5310 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5318 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5319 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5326 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5327 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5328 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5330 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5331 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Another very minor typo fix.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * Very minor typo fix.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5354 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5357 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5358 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5371 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5372 variables properly (#34850).
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5385 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5386 (automatically generated by build process).
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5390 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5392 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5399 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5400 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5402 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5409 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * README: minor typo fix.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5422 leave it at that. :-)
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5432 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5441 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5442 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5443 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5450 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5454 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5457 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5464 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5465 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5466 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5467 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5471 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5474 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5475 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5476 Craig Small for spotting this.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5483 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5484 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5497 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5503 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5504 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5505 working on the last version of debhelper.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5512 being made. (#23255)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5525 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5532 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5533 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5534 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5535 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5542 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5543 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5544 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5545 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5547 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5548 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5550 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5570 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5571 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5572 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5573 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5574 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5575 suidregister actually supports it.
5576 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5577 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5581 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5588 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5591 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5592 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5593 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5594 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5595 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5596 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5597 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5601 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5603 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5604 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5608 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5611 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5612 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5613 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5614 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5621 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5623 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5624 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5625 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5626 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5627 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5628 effect, either. (#30118)
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5632 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5638 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5641 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5642 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5655 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5656 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5657 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5658 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5665 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5666 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5676 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5679 packages, painlessly.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5683 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5689 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5695 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5701 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * The perl conversion is complete.
5705 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5707 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5708 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5709 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5714 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5717 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5718 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5719 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5726 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5728 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5730 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5731 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5735 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5738 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5739 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5749 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5752 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5753 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5754 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5755 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5756 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5763 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5764 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5765 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5766 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5770 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5773 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5777 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5780 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5781 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5782 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5783 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5784 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5785 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5786 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5787 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5800 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5801 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5802 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5807 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5810 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5817 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5821 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5824 sections of shared libraries.
5825 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5826 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5827 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5828 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5829 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5830 things you don't want them to.
5831 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5832 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5839 shared libraries. (#26414)
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5843 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5845 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5846 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5847 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5848 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5852 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5856 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5858 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5859 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5860 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5861 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5862 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5869 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5876 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5877 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5885 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5889 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5892 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5893 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5894 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5895 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5896 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5898 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5899 remove debian/files properly.
5900 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5901 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5902 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5903 * Removed bogus menu file.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5907 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5910 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5917 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5918 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5919 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5920 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5921 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5922 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5926 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5929 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5930 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5931 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5932 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5936 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5943 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5946 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5947 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5949 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5950 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5951 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5952 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5953 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5954 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5958 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5961 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5962 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5963 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5964 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5965 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5966 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5967 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5968 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5969 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5970 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5971 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5972 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5973 passed any switches.
5974 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5978 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5981 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5982 at all for a long while.
5983 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5984 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5985 large chunks in the process.
5986 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5987 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5988 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5996 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5998 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6003 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6006 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6007 that don't always have the same files in them.
6008 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6009 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6010 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6014 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6018 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6019 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6020 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6021 updating 27 man pages.
6022 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6023 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6024 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6025 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6026 programs act on. (#25247)
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6030 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6034 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6035 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6036 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6037 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6038 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6039 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6044 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6051 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6061 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6065 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6071 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6074 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6075 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6076 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6077 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6078 package by accident.
6079 * Is version 1.0 next?
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6083 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6086 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6087 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6091 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6094 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6095 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6096 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6097 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6098 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6100 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6105 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6108 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6109 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6116 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6120 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6123 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6124 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6129 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6135 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6137 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6138 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6139 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6144 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6150 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6153 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6154 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6155 past week. Thanks, guys!
6157 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6158 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6159 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6160 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6161 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6162 would do in the same situation.
6163 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6164 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6166 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6168 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6169 permissions changed.
6170 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6171 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6172 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6173 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6174 files are treated identically.
6175 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6176 * Minor man page fixes.
6177 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6178 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6179 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6183 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6186 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6187 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6188 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6189 use -X multiple times, too.
6190 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6191 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6198 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6199 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6203 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6206 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6210 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6213 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6214 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6215 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6216 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6217 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6218 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6219 shape if you're starting a new package.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6223 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6226 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6230 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6233 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6234 because of missing symlinks.
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6238 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6244 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6247 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6248 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6249 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6250 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6251 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6253 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6254 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6258 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6260 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6261 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6262 to be changed after the fact :-)
6263 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6269 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6270 no version string after the -V.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6274 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6276 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6277 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6282 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6285 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6289 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6292 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6293 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6294 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6295 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6296 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6297 I always welcome corrections!
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6301 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6307 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6310 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6311 * Documented this new switch.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6315 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6318 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6319 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6320 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6321 no packages use the old behavior.
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6325 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6328 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6329 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6336 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6340 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6346 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6349 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6353 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6356 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6357 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6358 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6362 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6368 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6371 into the source package by accident.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6375 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6378 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6379 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6380 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6381 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6382 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6383 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6388 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6392 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6393 inspired to implement some of it.
6394 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6398 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6401 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6408 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6409 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6413 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6416 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6417 have done.) (#17598)
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6421 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6433 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6436 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6443 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6444 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6448 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6451 argument processor in perl.
6452 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6453 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6454 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6455 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6459 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6462 type directories. (#16933)
6463 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6464 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6465 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6466 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6467 are supported. (#16935)
6468 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6476 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6480 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6484 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6485 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6486 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6487 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6488 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6489 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6493 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6496 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6497 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6499 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6500 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6501 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6502 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6503 a given package, or -i or -a.
6504 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6505 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6506 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6507 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6508 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6509 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6510 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6511 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6512 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6514 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6515 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6516 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6523 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6524 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6532 does not have a section.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6539 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6540 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6541 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6545 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * Fixed typo #16215.
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6551 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6554 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6555 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6556 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6557 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6558 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6566 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6567 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6568 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6573 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6579 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6585 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6588 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6589 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6590 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6591 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6592 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6593 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6597 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6603 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6606 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6613 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6614 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6615 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6622 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6635 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6642 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6646 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6652 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6655 postinst, postrm, etc.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6659 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6665 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6668 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6669 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6670 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6671 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6672 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6679 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6680 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6684 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6687 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6691 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6694 installing package files into.
6695 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6700 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6704 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6708 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6714 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6717 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6721 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6723 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6724 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6725 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6726 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6727 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6731 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6733 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6734 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6735 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6736 multiple binary packages.
6737 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6738 should rebuild them with this version.
6739 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6743 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6746 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6750 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6753 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6757 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6759 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6760 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6761 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6762 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6763 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6764 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6765 debian/README.debian.
6766 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6767 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6768 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6769 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6770 in a few situations.)
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6774 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6780 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6782 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6786 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6789 * Fixed several man pages.
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6793 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6796 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6797 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6801 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6803 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6804 is ready for general use.
6805 * Added man pages for all commands.
6806 * Multiple binary package support.
6807 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6808 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6809 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6811 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6812 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6813 auto-installed as parameters.
6814 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6816 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6819 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6820 the package build directory it is to act on.
6821 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6822 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6823 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6827 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6829 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6830 ready to replace debstd.
6832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400