1 debhelper (8.1.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
4 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
5 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
6 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
7 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
8 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
9 the targets. Closes: #629139
11 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
12 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
16 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
22 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
25 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
26 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
30 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
33 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
34 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
35 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
36 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
37 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
38 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
39 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
44 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
48 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
49 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
51 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
52 changes may be added to that mode.
53 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
54 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
55 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
56 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
57 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
58 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
59 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
60 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
61 * Removed old example rules files.
62 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
66 * update french translation.
67 * Fix french misspelling.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
71 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
74 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
78 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
81 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
83 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
84 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
85 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
86 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
87 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
91 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
95 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
96 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
97 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
98 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
99 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
101 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
102 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
103 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
104 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
105 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
106 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
107 (Thanks, David Prévot)
108 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
109 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
110 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
111 target fails. Closes: #601037
112 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
114 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
115 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
116 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
117 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
118 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
120 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
121 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
123 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
124 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
125 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
127 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
129 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
132 * update french translation.
133 * Fix french misspelling.
134 * French translation update after massive man page typography
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
138 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
144 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
148 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
150 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
154 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
156 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
157 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
158 introduced by the fix to #527990.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
162 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
165 changes are planned for that mode.
166 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
167 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
168 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
169 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
170 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
171 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
172 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
173 (genesis) still uses them.
174 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
175 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
176 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
177 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
178 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
179 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
180 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
181 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
182 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
183 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
184 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
185 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
186 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
187 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
188 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
189 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
190 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
191 commands. (See #570039)
192 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
194 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
199 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
203 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
204 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
205 in control file or debhelper config files.
206 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
210 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
213 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
214 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
218 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
221 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
225 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
228 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
229 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
233 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Updated French translation.
236 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
237 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
238 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
239 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
241 * Typo. Closes: #571968
242 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
243 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
244 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
245 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
246 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
247 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
248 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
249 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
250 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
252 * dh: Improve documentation.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
256 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
258 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
259 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
260 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
264 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
267 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
271 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
274 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
278 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
281 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
282 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
283 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
284 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
285 options that they do not support.
286 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
287 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
288 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
289 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
290 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
291 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
296 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
300 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
301 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
302 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
303 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
304 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
305 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
306 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
307 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
308 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
312 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
315 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
316 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
317 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
318 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
322 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Typo. Closes: #558654
325 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
326 installed. Closes: #558782
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
330 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
333 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
334 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
335 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
336 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
337 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
341 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
343 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
344 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
345 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
346 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
350 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
353 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
354 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
358 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
360 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
364 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
366 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
367 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
368 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
369 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
370 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
371 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
372 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
373 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
374 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
375 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
376 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
377 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
378 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
379 time soon.) Closes: #554509
380 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
382 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
383 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
384 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
385 document id. Closes: #555677
386 * Typo. Closes: #555659
387 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
388 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
389 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
390 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
392 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
393 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
394 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
399 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
402 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
403 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
404 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
405 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
406 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
407 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
408 translation (#494300 part 2)
411 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
413 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
414 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
415 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
416 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
417 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
421 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
424 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
425 (It was only run once due to logging.)
426 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
427 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
428 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
429 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
430 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
431 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
432 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
433 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
434 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
435 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
439 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
443 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
446 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
447 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
451 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
454 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
455 flag with arch all/any packages.
456 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
457 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
458 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
459 situation. Closes: #540794
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
463 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
467 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
468 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
469 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
470 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
471 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
474 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
475 the default. Closes: #538201
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
480 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
484 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
485 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
486 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
487 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
488 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
490 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
491 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
492 * Above Closes: #491117
493 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
498 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
504 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
505 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
506 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
510 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
513 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
514 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
515 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
516 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
517 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
522 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
525 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
526 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
530 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
532 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
536 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
538 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
539 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
541 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
542 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
543 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
547 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
549 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
550 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
554 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
560 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
562 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
563 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
564 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
569 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
571 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
575 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
578 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
579 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
580 created by using `python' first during build and install.
582 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
587 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
589 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
593 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
595 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
596 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
600 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
602 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
606 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
608 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
612 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
614 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
615 contributed by Modestas Vainius
616 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
617 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
618 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
619 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
620 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
621 that support it. Closes: #480577
622 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
623 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
624 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
626 - Adds support for cmake.
627 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
628 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
630 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
632 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
633 that use them. The options are:
634 --sourcedir, --destdir
635 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
636 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
637 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
638 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
639 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
643 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
652 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
653 default. Closes: #537140
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
657 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
660 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
661 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
665 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
668 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
672 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
674 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
675 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
679 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
682 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
684 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
685 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
686 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
690 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
693 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
694 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
695 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
699 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
702 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
703 warning or deprecation message.
704 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
705 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
706 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
707 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
708 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
709 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
710 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
711 Closes: #534639, #357434
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
715 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
721 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
724 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
725 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
726 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
727 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
729 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
730 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
731 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
735 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
741 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
748 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
751 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
755 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
759 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
760 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
762 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
763 file support. Closes: #494914
764 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
768 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
771 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
772 parameters. Closes: #527256
773 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
774 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
775 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
779 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
783 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
784 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
785 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
789 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
792 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
793 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
794 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
798 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
801 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
802 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
804 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
805 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
806 by triggers). Closes: #521181
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
810 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
814 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
818 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
821 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
822 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
823 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
824 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
829 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
835 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
838 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
839 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
840 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
841 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
842 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
844 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
845 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
846 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
847 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
848 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
849 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
853 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
856 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
857 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
858 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
859 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
860 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
862 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
866 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
868 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
872 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
874 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
875 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
876 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
877 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
878 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
879 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
880 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
881 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
882 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
883 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
884 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
888 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
890 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
891 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
893 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
894 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
895 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
896 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
898 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
899 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
903 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
905 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
906 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
907 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
908 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
909 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
910 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
911 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
913 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
914 that uses them. Affected options are:
915 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
916 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
917 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
918 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
919 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
920 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
921 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
922 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
923 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
924 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
925 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
926 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
930 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
937 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
943 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
945 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
946 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
948 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
949 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
950 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
951 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
952 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
954 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
956 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
957 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
958 rules (see bug #509756).
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
962 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
968 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
969 * Typo. Closes: #493062
970 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
971 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
975 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
978 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
979 empty files. Closes: #490937
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
983 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
989 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
996 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
999 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1000 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1001 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1002 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1009 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1010 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1011 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1012 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1016 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1019 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1020 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1021 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1022 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1023 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1027 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1034 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1037 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1038 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1039 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1040 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1041 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1042 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1043 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1044 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1045 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1049 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1052 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1053 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1054 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1055 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1057 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1058 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1059 breaking backwards compatibility.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1063 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1066 message in perl 5.10.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1070 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1076 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1079 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1083 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1086 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1090 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1093 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1094 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1095 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1096 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1097 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1098 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1099 logging by dh_listpackages.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1103 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1106 run and there are no packages of that type.
1107 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1108 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1109 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1110 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1112 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1113 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1117 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1120 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1121 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1125 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1128 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1129 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1131 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1132 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1133 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1134 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1135 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1136 planned but not yet implemented.)
1137 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1138 if the Makefile has such a target.
1139 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1140 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1141 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1142 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1143 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1144 but not yet implemented.)
1145 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1146 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1147 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1148 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1149 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1151 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1153 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1154 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1156 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1157 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1158 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1163 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1166 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1167 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1171 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1173 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1174 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1175 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1179 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1185 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1191 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1194 just those installed by the program.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1198 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1201 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1202 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1206 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1209 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1210 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1211 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1212 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1216 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1219 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1220 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1224 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1227 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1228 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1232 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1235 with policy. Closes: #461392
1236 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1237 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1238 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1239 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1240 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1244 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1247 Closes: #460340, #460351
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1251 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1254 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1255 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1256 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1257 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1261 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1264 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1265 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1266 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1267 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1268 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1269 package build directory won't work.
1270 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1271 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1272 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1273 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1274 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1275 mode. Closes: #459426
1276 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1281 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1284 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1292 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1293 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1294 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1295 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1296 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1297 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1301 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1304 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1305 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1306 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1307 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1311 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1314 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1315 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1316 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1317 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1318 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1322 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1325 debian/package.triggers files.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1329 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1332 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1339 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1340 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1341 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1342 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1347 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1350 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1354 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1357 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1358 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1360 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1365 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1369 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1370 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1371 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1375 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1382 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1389 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1392 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1394 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1395 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1396 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1398 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1399 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1400 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1407 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1408 * Update urls to web page.
1409 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1410 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1411 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1412 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1416 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1419 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1420 - typo in alternatives call
1421 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1423 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1424 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1428 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1431 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1436 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1448 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1451 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1453 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1454 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1455 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1456 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1457 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1458 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1459 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1460 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1461 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1462 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1463 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1470 package install. Closes: #415717
1471 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1472 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1473 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1474 script and then remove the python files.
1475 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1476 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1477 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1478 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1479 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1480 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1481 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1482 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1483 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1484 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1485 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1486 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1487 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1491 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Correct typo in french translation
1497 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1498 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1500 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1502 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1503 Closes: #406921, #381940
1504 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1506 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1507 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1508 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1509 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1510 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1511 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1512 specified). Closes: #381851
1513 * Misc minor changes.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1517 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1524 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1525 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1535 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1536 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1539 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1540 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1542 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1543 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1544 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1545 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1552 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1555 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1559 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1565 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1571 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1572 a difficult situation.
1573 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1574 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1575 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1576 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1577 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1578 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1579 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1580 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1581 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1582 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1586 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Non-maintainer upload.
1589 * Update of dh_python
1590 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1591 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1593 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1594 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1595 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1596 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1597 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1599 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1601 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Non-maintainer upload.
1604 * Update of dh_python
1605 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1606 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1607 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1608 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1609 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1610 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1611 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1612 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1613 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1614 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1616 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1617 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1618 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1619 the not too-distant future).
1620 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1621 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1622 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1623 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1624 thus made the build fail.
1626 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1628 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Non-maintainer upload.
1631 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1633 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1635 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1638 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1639 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1640 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1641 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1642 package. Closes: #301424
1643 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1644 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1645 fonts). Closes: #372686
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1649 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1655 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1656 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1657 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1658 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1659 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1660 above, but already depends on that.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1664 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1667 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1668 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1669 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1670 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1671 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1675 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1681 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1687 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1688 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1692 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1695 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1699 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1703 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1704 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1705 new version (0.24.1).
1706 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1707 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1710 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1711 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1712 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1713 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1714 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1715 new directory on their own.
1716 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1717 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1721 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1724 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1725 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1726 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1727 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1731 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1734 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1735 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1736 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1737 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1738 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1742 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1752 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1753 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1757 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1758 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1762 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1764 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1765 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1767 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1768 ignored. Closes: #337664
1770 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1786 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1787 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1788 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1789 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1790 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1791 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1792 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1796 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1799 version. Closes: #350607
1800 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1801 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1802 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1803 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1810 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1811 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1812 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1816 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1829 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1832 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1836 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1839 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1840 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1841 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1842 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1843 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1844 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1851 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1852 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1860 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1864 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1867 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1871 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1874 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1875 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1876 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1877 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1878 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1879 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1883 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1887 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1888 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1889 link. Closes: #346405
1890 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1892 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1893 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1894 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1895 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1896 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1897 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1898 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1902 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1909 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1915 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1918 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1922 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1925 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1930 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1934 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1935 installed. Closes: #342033
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1939 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1942 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1943 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1944 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1949 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1955 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1961 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1965 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1966 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1967 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1971 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1974 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1979 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1986 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1992 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1995 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1996 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1997 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1998 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1999 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2000 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2001 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2003 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2007 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2010 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2011 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2018 in standard man dirs.
2019 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2032 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2051 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2054 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2055 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2062 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2063 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2064 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2066 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2068 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2083 mode. Closes: #324161
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2090 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2091 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2092 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2093 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2101 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2102 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2103 is necesary for sanity.
2104 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2105 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2112 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2113 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2120 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2133 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2134 released, so use at your own risk.
2135 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2136 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2138 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2139 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2140 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2141 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2142 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2143 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2144 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2145 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2146 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2147 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2148 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2149 including twice per config file line now..
2150 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2151 and simplfy the rules file.
2152 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2153 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2154 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2156 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2157 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2164 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2171 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2178 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2185 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2186 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2187 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2188 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2189 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2190 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2197 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2198 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2199 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2207 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2208 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2213 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2216 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2217 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2218 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2226 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2227 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2228 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2248 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2249 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2250 unknown. Closes: #282924
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2261 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Spanish man page updates.
2264 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2278 * dh_desktop: reindent
2279 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2280 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2292 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2298 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2302 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2305 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2306 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2310 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2332 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2339 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2340 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2341 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2342 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2343 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2344 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2346 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2347 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2348 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2349 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2350 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2351 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2352 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2353 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2354 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2355 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2356 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2357 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2358 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2359 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2360 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2361 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2365 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2375 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2379 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2382 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2389 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2396 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2406 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2421 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2422 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2423 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2427 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2430 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2434 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2437 but occasionally right and necessary.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2444 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2445 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2446 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2447 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2448 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2452 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2455 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2457 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2458 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2459 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2460 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2461 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2462 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2463 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2464 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2465 postinst scripts for udebs.
2466 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2473 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2475 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2476 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2480 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2493 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2503 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2510 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2514 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2517 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2520 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2521 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2525 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2531 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2534 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2541 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2542 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2543 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2545 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2547 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2548 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2549 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2556 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2561 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2564 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2565 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2566 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2577 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2583 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2586 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2587 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2588 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2589 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2590 associated -dbg packages.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2597 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2604 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2611 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2618 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2626 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2633 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2641 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2649 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2650 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2651 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2652 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2653 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2654 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2655 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2656 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2657 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2658 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2665 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2670 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2673 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2674 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2681 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2682 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2690 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2697 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2704 out section number. Closes: #204731
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2730 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2731 removal. Closes: #204286
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2735 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2738 renaming. Closes: #203548
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2742 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2745 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2746 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2756 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2762 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2768 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2771 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2772 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2773 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2780 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2781 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2801 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2809 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2816 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2818 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2819 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2826 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2831 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2834 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2838 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2844 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2846 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2853 it break hard links (see #188663).
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2860 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2874 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2875 debconf-mergetemplates
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2879 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2882 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2886 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2889 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2893 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2896 * Update debhelper(1).
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2903 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2904 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2905 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2906 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2907 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2911 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2914 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2915 the shell. Closes: #178524
2916 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2920 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2923 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2927 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2930 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2934 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2937 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2938 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2939 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2940 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2945 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2948 files from installation.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2952 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2955 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2956 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2960 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2963 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2967 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2970 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2974 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2980 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2986 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2990 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2991 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2993 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2997 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3000 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3001 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3002 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3003 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3007 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3010 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3014 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3017 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3018 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3022 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3026 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3031 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3037 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3041 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3042 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3043 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3048 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3051 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3052 practice. Closes: #163303
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3062 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3072 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3074 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3075 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3076 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3077 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3078 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3085 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3090 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3096 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3103 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3106 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3117 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3123 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3129 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3136 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3139 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3140 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3141 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3142 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3147 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3160 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3163 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3164 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3168 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3171 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3172 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3173 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3174 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3175 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3182 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3184 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3189 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3192 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3196 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3199 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3200 right thing. Closes: #150644
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3204 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Stupid, evil typo.
3207 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3211 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3221 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3222 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3227 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3233 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3236 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3240 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3243 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3244 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3249 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3252 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3256 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3262 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3265 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3266 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3270 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3276 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Removing perl warning message.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3282 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3285 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3286 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3287 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3288 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3289 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3290 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3291 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3292 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3296 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3302 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3309 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3312 debconf-mergetemplate.
3313 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3314 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3318 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3321 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3322 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3323 dh_install, which ...
3324 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3325 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3326 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3327 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3328 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3329 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3330 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3331 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3332 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3333 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3334 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3335 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3336 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3337 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3338 other minor changes.
3339 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3340 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3341 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3342 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3343 course there's -X ..)
3344 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3345 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3346 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3348 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3349 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3350 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3351 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3352 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3363 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3366 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3370 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3376 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3382 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3388 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3394 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3397 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3398 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3399 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3400 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3402 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3403 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3407 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3413 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3416 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3420 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3423 upset. Closes: #131322
3425 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3427 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3430 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3431 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3432 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3433 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3434 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3435 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3436 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3437 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3438 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3439 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3440 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3441 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3442 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3443 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3444 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3446 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3450 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3453 - Better indenting of generated code.
3454 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3458 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3462 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3463 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3464 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3465 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3466 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3467 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3468 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3472 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3475 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3479 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3482 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3483 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3484 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3485 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3486 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3487 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3488 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3489 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3490 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3491 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3492 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3493 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3494 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3495 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3496 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3501 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3507 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3510 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3511 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3515 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3518 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3519 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3523 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3529 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3532 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3533 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3534 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3535 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3536 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3541 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3547 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3550 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3554 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3557 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3562 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3568 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3571 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3581 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3585 Also some indentation fixes.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3592 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3593 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3594 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3595 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3596 Closes: #106514, #85520
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3600 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3606 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3624 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3630 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3633 change it in debhelper v4..
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3637 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3643 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3646 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3653 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3657 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3663 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3666 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3667 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3668 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3669 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3670 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3671 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3672 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3673 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3674 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3675 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3676 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3677 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3681 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3684 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3688 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3695 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3698 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3699 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3700 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3701 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3702 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3703 program those options go to. So, for example,
3704 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3705 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3706 something complex. Closes: #89311
3707 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3711 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3714 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3715 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3716 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3720 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3723 through loop. Closes: #98598
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3727 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Missing semi-colon.
3730 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3731 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3735 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3738 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3739 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3740 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3747 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3748 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3752 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3755 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3759 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3762 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3763 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3767 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3770 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3771 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3772 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3776 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3779 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3780 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3781 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3785 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3788 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3792 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3798 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3804 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3810 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3816 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3819 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3823 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3826 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3827 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3828 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3829 followed. Closes: #85483
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3833 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3835 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3836 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3837 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3841 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3844 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3845 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3846 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3847 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3848 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3849 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3850 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3851 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3852 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3853 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3854 Closes: #88464, #77743
3855 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3856 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3857 us to deal with that gracefully.
3858 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3860 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3861 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3862 a while, Closes: #51225
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3866 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3872 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3875 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3879 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3883 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3888 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3891 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3892 don't make packlist files.
3893 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3894 debhelper coding standards.
3895 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3896 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3900 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3903 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3907 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3910 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3911 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3912 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3913 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3914 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3915 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3916 but is mildly deprecated.
3917 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3918 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3919 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3920 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3921 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3922 switching to statoverrides..
3923 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3924 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3925 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3926 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3927 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3928 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3930 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3931 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3932 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3933 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3934 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3935 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3936 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3937 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3938 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3940 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3941 variable names, pod man pages).
3942 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3943 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3944 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3945 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3946 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3947 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3948 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3968 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3972 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3974 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3975 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3976 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3982 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3983 they were previously ignored.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3987 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3989 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3990 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3996 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3997 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3998 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4004 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4010 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4011 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4017 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4018 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4019 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4020 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4021 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4022 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4023 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4024 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4025 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4026 it is an obsolete program.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4032 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4040 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4042 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4046 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4050 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4052 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4056 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4062 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * typo: Closes, #78567
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4068 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4074 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4083 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4084 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4085 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4086 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4087 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4094 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4102 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4103 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4104 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4105 backwards-compatibility.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4109 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4112 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4113 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4114 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4115 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4116 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4117 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4119 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4120 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4121 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4123 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4125 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4126 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4127 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4128 should now be raised to severity important..
4129 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4130 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4137 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4142 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4167 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4170 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4171 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4172 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4173 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4177 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4186 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4187 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4188 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4189 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4190 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4191 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4196 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4199 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4203 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4209 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4212 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4220 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4221 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4222 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4223 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4231 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4234 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4237 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4238 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4241 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4243 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4244 the TODO entry about it.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4258 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4259 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4266 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4267 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4268 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4269 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4289 (this appears to be logal).
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4296 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4297 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4298 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4299 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4312 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4313 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4314 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4315 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4328 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4342 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4343 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4344 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4365 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4366 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4367 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4368 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4369 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4370 notice until v2 is complete.
4371 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4372 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4373 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4374 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4375 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4376 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4378 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4379 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4380 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4381 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4398 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4401 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4405 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4415 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4416 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4417 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4418 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4426 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4427 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4428 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4436 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4437 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4444 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4451 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4465 depend on the build and install targets.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4472 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4489 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4495 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4498 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4499 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4500 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4501 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4502 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4503 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4505 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4506 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4507 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4508 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4509 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4510 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4511 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4515 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4527 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4530 right place. Closes: #55065
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4534 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4541 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4544 * Copyright date updates.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4548 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4551 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4556 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4562 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4569 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4575 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4581 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4587 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4590 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4591 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4592 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4593 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4594 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4595 bits until all files have been registered.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4599 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installmanpages:
4602 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4603 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4604 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4605 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4606 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4607 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4608 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4609 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4610 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4611 otherwise change the result at all.
4613 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4614 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4615 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4616 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4617 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4622 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4628 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4631 act on files that don't exist.
4632 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4633 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4634 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4636 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4637 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4638 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4639 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4643 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4649 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4655 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4658 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4662 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4665 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4667 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4668 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4669 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4673 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4676 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4677 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4678 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4679 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4680 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4681 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4682 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4684 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4686 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4690 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4697 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4712 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4722 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4731 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4732 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4733 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4734 I made some changes, though:
4735 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4736 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4737 that is a clear violation of policy.
4738 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4739 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4740 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4741 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4742 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4743 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4744 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4745 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4746 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4748 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4761 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4765 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4768 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4769 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4780 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4790 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4791 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4792 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4793 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4794 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4795 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4796 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4810 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4811 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4824 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4831 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4832 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4838 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4847 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4854 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4855 for the dependancies to be generated.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4862 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4866 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4869 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4870 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4871 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4879 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4880 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4899 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4903 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4912 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4913 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4914 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4915 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4916 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4917 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4918 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4919 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4920 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4921 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4922 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4923 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4930 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4931 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4933 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4934 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4935 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4936 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4937 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4938 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4940 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4941 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4945 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4948 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4962 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4970 for building debhelper.
4971 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4985 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4992 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4993 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4994 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4995 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4996 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4997 it's always available.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5004 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5005 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5006 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5013 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5014 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5018 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5024 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5027 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5031 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5037 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5040 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5041 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5042 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5046 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5049 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5057 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5058 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5060 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5061 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5077 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5080 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5084 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5086 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5087 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5088 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5090 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5094 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5097 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5098 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5099 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5103 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5106 things if CDPATH is set.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5110 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5116 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5119 seems to make sense for the transition.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5126 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5131 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5134 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5135 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5142 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5146 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5149 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5150 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5151 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5152 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5162 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5165 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5166 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5167 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5168 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5169 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5170 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5171 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5172 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5173 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5174 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5182 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5183 * README: mention doc/v2
5184 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5185 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5191 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5192 be using this script RSN.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5199 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5200 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5201 more than 1 init script.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5208 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Changed perl version detection.
5215 * Changed call to find.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5222 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5224 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Really include dh_installpam.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5238 * Wrote man page for same.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5242 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5245 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5246 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5251 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5258 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5261 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5262 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5263 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5264 x bit was being set!
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5271 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5272 well. (Closes: 38900)
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5279 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5280 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5290 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5297 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5306 help from Julian Gilbey.
5307 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5308 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5309 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5310 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5311 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5312 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5313 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5324 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5337 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5346 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5353 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5360 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5373 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5377 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5383 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5392 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5393 may be deleted. (#35845)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * Various man page enhancements.
5400 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5408 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5409 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5413 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5416 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5417 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5418 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5420 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5421 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5432 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * Another very minor typo fix.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5438 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Very minor typo fix.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5447 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5448 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5452 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5458 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5461 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5462 variables properly (#34850).
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5472 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5475 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5476 (automatically generated by build process).
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5482 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5489 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5490 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5492 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5499 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5503 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * README: minor typo fix.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5512 leave it at that. :-)
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5531 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5532 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5533 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5537 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5540 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5547 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5551 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5554 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5555 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5556 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5557 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5564 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5565 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5566 Craig Small for spotting this.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5573 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5574 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5584 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5587 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5593 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5594 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5595 working on the last version of debhelper.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5599 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5602 being made. (#23255)
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5612 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5615 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5619 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5622 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5623 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5624 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5625 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5632 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5633 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5634 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5635 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5637 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5638 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5640 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5651 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5657 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5660 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5661 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5662 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5663 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5664 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5665 suidregister actually supports it.
5666 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5667 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5671 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5678 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5681 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5682 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5683 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5684 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5685 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5686 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5687 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5691 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5693 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5694 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5701 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5702 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5703 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5704 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5708 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5711 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5713 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5714 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5715 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5716 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5717 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5718 effect, either. (#30118)
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5722 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5731 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5732 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5736 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5745 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5746 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5747 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5748 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5752 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5755 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5756 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5760 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5766 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5769 packages, painlessly.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5779 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5785 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5791 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * The perl conversion is complete.
5795 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5797 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5798 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5799 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5804 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5807 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5808 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5809 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5813 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5816 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5818 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5820 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5821 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5825 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5828 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5829 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5833 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5839 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5842 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5843 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5844 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5845 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5846 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5850 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5853 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5854 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5855 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5856 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5860 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5863 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5867 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5870 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5871 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5872 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5873 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5874 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5875 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5876 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5877 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5887 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5890 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5891 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5892 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5897 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5900 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5907 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5911 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5914 sections of shared libraries.
5915 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5916 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5917 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5918 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5919 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5920 things you don't want them to.
5921 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5922 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5926 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5929 shared libraries. (#26414)
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5933 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5935 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5936 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5937 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5938 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5942 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5946 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5948 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5949 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5950 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5951 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5952 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5959 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5963 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5966 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5967 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5972 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5975 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5979 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5982 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5983 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5984 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5985 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5986 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5988 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5989 remove debian/files properly.
5990 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5991 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5992 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5993 * Removed bogus menu file.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5997 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6000 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6004 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6007 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6008 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6009 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6010 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6011 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6012 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6016 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6019 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6020 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6021 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6022 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6026 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6033 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6036 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6037 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6039 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6040 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6041 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6042 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6043 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6044 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6048 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6051 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6052 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6053 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6054 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6055 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6056 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6057 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6058 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6059 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6060 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6061 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6062 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6063 passed any switches.
6064 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6068 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6071 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6072 at all for a long while.
6073 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6074 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6075 large chunks in the process.
6076 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6077 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6078 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6083 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6086 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6088 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6093 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6096 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6097 that don't always have the same files in them.
6098 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6099 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6100 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6104 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6108 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6109 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6110 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6111 updating 27 man pages.
6112 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6113 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6114 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6115 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6116 programs act on. (#25247)
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6120 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6124 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6125 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6126 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6127 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6128 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6129 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6134 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6141 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6148 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6151 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6155 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6161 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6164 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6165 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6166 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6167 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6168 package by accident.
6169 * Is version 1.0 next?
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6173 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6176 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6177 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6181 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6184 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6185 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6186 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6187 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6188 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6190 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6195 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6198 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6199 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6203 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6206 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6210 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6213 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6214 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6219 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6225 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6228 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6229 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6234 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6240 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6243 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6244 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6245 past week. Thanks, guys!
6247 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6248 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6249 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6250 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6251 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6252 would do in the same situation.
6253 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6254 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6256 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6258 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6259 permissions changed.
6260 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6261 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6262 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6263 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6264 files are treated identically.
6265 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6266 * Minor man page fixes.
6267 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6268 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6269 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6273 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6275 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6276 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6277 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6278 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6279 use -X multiple times, too.
6280 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6281 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6285 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6288 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6289 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6293 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6296 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6300 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6303 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6304 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6305 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6306 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6307 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6308 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6309 shape if you're starting a new package.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6313 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6316 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6320 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6323 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6324 because of missing symlinks.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6328 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6337 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6338 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6339 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6340 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6341 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6343 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6344 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6348 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6350 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6351 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6352 to be changed after the fact :-)
6353 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6357 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6359 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6360 no version string after the -V.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6364 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6366 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6367 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6372 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6375 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6379 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6382 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6383 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6384 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6385 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6386 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6387 I always welcome corrections!
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6391 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6397 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6400 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6401 * Documented this new switch.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6405 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6408 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6409 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6410 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6411 no packages use the old behavior.
6413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6415 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6417 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6418 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6419 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6423 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6426 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6430 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6436 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6439 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6443 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6446 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6447 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6448 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6452 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6458 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6461 into the source package by accident.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6465 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6468 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6469 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6470 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6471 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6472 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6473 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6478 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6482 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6483 inspired to implement some of it.
6484 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6488 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6491 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6495 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6498 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6499 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6503 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6506 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6507 have done.) (#17598)
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6511 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6526 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6530 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6532 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6533 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6534 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6538 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6541 argument processor in perl.
6542 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6543 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6544 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6545 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6549 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6552 type directories. (#16933)
6553 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6554 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6555 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6556 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6557 are supported. (#16935)
6558 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6566 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6570 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6574 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6575 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6576 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6577 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6578 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6579 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6583 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6586 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6587 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6589 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6590 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6591 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6592 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6593 a given package, or -i or -a.
6594 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6595 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6596 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6597 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6598 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6599 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6600 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6601 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6602 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6604 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6605 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6606 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6613 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6614 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6622 does not have a section.
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6629 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6630 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6631 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6635 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Fixed typo #16215.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6641 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6644 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6645 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6646 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6647 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6648 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6653 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6655 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6656 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6657 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6658 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6663 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6665 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6675 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6677 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6678 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6679 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6680 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6681 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6682 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6683 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6687 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6689 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6696 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6700 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6703 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6704 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6705 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6709 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6711 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6712 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6716 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6718 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6722 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6725 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6729 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6731 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6732 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6736 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6742 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6744 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6745 postinst, postrm, etc.
6747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6749 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6751 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6755 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6757 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6758 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6759 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6760 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6761 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6762 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6769 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6770 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6774 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6776 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6777 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6781 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6784 installing package files into.
6785 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6790 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6792 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6794 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6798 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6800 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6804 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6806 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6807 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6811 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6813 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6814 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6815 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6816 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6817 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6821 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6823 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6824 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6825 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6826 multiple binary packages.
6827 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6828 should rebuild them with this version.
6829 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6833 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6835 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6836 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6840 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6842 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6843 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6847 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6850 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6851 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6852 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6853 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6854 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6855 debian/README.debian.
6856 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6857 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6858 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6859 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6860 in a few situations.)
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6864 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6870 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6872 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6876 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6879 * Fixed several man pages.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6883 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6886 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6887 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6891 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6893 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6894 is ready for general use.
6895 * Added man pages for all commands.
6896 * Multiple binary package support.
6897 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6898 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6899 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6901 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6902 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6903 auto-installed as parameters.
6904 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6906 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6909 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6910 the package build directory it is to act on.
6911 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6912 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6913 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6917 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6919 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6920 ready to replace debstd.
6922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400