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_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
7 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 May 2011 15:24:19 -0400
11 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
17 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
20 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
21 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
25 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
28 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
29 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
30 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
31 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
32 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
33 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
34 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
39 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
43 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
44 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
46 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
47 changes may be added to that mode.
48 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
49 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
50 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
51 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
52 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
53 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
54 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
55 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
56 * Removed old example rules files.
57 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
61 * update french translation.
62 * Fix french misspelling.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
66 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
69 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
73 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
76 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
78 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
79 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
80 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
81 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
82 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
86 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
89 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
90 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
91 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
92 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
93 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
94 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
96 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
97 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
98 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
99 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
100 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
101 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
102 (Thanks, David Prévot)
103 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
104 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
105 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
106 target fails. Closes: #601037
107 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
109 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
110 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
111 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
112 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
113 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
115 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
116 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
118 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
119 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
120 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
122 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
124 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
127 * update french translation.
128 * Fix french misspelling.
129 * French translation update after massive man page typography
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
133 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
139 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
143 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
145 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
149 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
151 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
152 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
153 introduced by the fix to #527990.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
157 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
160 changes are planned for that mode.
161 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
162 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
163 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
164 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
165 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
166 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
167 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
168 (genesis) still uses them.
169 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
170 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
171 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
172 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
173 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
174 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
175 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
176 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
177 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
178 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
179 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
180 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
181 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
182 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
183 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
184 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
185 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
186 commands. (See #570039)
187 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
189 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
194 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
198 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
199 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
200 in control file or debhelper config files.
201 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
205 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
208 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
209 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
213 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
216 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
220 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
223 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
224 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
228 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Updated French translation.
231 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
232 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
233 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
234 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
236 * Typo. Closes: #571968
237 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
238 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
239 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
240 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
241 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
242 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
243 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
244 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
245 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
247 * dh: Improve documentation.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
251 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
253 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
254 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
255 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
259 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
262 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
266 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
269 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
273 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
276 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
277 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
278 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
279 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
280 options that they do not support.
281 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
282 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
283 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
284 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
285 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
286 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
291 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
295 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
296 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
297 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
298 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
299 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
300 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
301 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
302 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
303 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
307 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
310 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
311 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
312 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
313 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
317 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Typo. Closes: #558654
320 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
321 installed. Closes: #558782
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
325 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
328 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
329 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
330 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
331 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
332 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
336 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
338 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
339 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
340 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
341 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
345 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
348 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
349 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
353 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
355 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
359 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
361 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
362 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
363 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
364 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
365 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
366 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
367 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
368 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
369 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
370 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
371 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
372 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
373 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
374 time soon.) Closes: #554509
375 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
377 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
378 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
379 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
380 document id. Closes: #555677
381 * Typo. Closes: #555659
382 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
383 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
384 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
385 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
387 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
388 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
389 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
394 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
397 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
398 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
399 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
400 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
401 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
402 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
403 translation (#494300 part 2)
406 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
408 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
409 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
410 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
411 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
412 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
416 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
419 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
420 (It was only run once due to logging.)
421 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
422 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
423 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
424 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
425 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
426 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
427 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
428 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
429 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
430 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
434 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
438 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
441 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
442 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
446 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
449 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
450 flag with arch all/any packages.
451 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
452 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
453 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
454 situation. Closes: #540794
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
458 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
462 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
463 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
464 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
465 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
466 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
469 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
470 the default. Closes: #538201
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
475 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
479 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
480 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
481 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
482 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
483 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
485 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
486 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
487 * Above Closes: #491117
488 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
493 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
499 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
500 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
501 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
505 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
508 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
509 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
510 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
511 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
512 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
517 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
520 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
521 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
525 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
527 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
531 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
533 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
534 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
536 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
537 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
538 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
542 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
544 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
545 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
549 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
555 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
557 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
558 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
559 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
564 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
566 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
570 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
573 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
574 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
575 created by using `python' first during build and install.
577 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
582 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
584 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
588 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
590 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
591 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
595 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
597 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
601 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
603 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
607 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
609 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
610 contributed by Modestas Vainius
611 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
612 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
613 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
614 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
615 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
616 that support it. Closes: #480577
617 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
618 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
619 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
621 - Adds support for cmake.
622 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
623 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
625 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
627 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
628 that use them. The options are:
629 --sourcedir, --destdir
630 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
631 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
632 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
633 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
634 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
638 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
644 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
647 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
648 default. Closes: #537140
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
652 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
655 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
656 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
663 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
667 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
670 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
674 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
677 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
679 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
680 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
681 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
685 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
688 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
689 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
690 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
694 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
697 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
698 warning or deprecation message.
699 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
700 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
701 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
702 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
703 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
704 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
705 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
706 Closes: #534639, #357434
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
710 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
716 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
719 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
720 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
721 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
722 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
724 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
725 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
726 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
730 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
736 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
743 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
746 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
750 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
754 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
755 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
757 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
758 file support. Closes: #494914
759 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
763 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
766 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
767 parameters. Closes: #527256
768 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
769 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
770 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
774 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
778 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
779 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
780 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
784 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
787 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
788 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
789 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
793 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
796 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
797 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
799 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
800 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
801 by triggers). Closes: #521181
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
805 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
809 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
813 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
816 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
817 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
818 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
819 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
824 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
830 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
833 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
834 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
835 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
836 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
837 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
839 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
840 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
841 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
842 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
843 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
844 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
848 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
851 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
852 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
853 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
854 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
855 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
857 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
861 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
863 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
867 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
869 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
870 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
871 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
872 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
873 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
874 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
875 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
876 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
877 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
878 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
879 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
883 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
885 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
886 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
888 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
889 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
890 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
891 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
893 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
894 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
898 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
900 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
901 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
902 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
903 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
904 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
905 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
906 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
908 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
909 that uses them. Affected options are:
910 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
911 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
912 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
913 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
914 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
915 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
916 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
917 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
918 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
919 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
920 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
921 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
925 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
932 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
938 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
940 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
941 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
943 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
944 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
945 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
946 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
947 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
949 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
951 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
952 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
953 rules (see bug #509756).
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
957 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
963 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
964 * Typo. Closes: #493062
965 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
966 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
970 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
973 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
974 empty files. Closes: #490937
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
978 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
984 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
991 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
994 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
995 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
996 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
997 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1002 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1004 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1005 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1006 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1007 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1011 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1014 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1015 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1016 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1017 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1018 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1022 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1029 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1032 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1033 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1034 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1035 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1036 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1037 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1038 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1039 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1040 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1044 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1047 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1048 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1049 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1050 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1052 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1053 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1054 breaking backwards compatibility.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1058 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1061 message in perl 5.10.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1065 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1071 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1074 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1078 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1081 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1085 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1088 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1089 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1090 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1091 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1092 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1093 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1094 logging by dh_listpackages.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1098 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1101 run and there are no packages of that type.
1102 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1103 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1104 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1105 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1107 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1108 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1112 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1115 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1116 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1120 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1123 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1124 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1126 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1127 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1128 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1129 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1130 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1131 planned but not yet implemented.)
1132 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1133 if the Makefile has such a target.
1134 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1135 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1136 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1137 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1138 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1139 but not yet implemented.)
1140 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1141 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1142 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1143 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1144 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1146 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1148 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1149 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1151 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1152 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1153 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1158 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1161 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1162 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1166 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1168 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1169 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1170 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1174 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1180 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1186 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1189 just those installed by the program.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1193 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1196 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1197 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1201 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1204 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1205 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1206 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1207 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1211 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1214 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1215 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1219 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1222 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1223 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1227 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1230 with policy. Closes: #461392
1231 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1232 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1233 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1234 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1235 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1239 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1242 Closes: #460340, #460351
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1246 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1249 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1250 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1251 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1252 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1256 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1259 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1260 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1261 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1262 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1263 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1264 package build directory won't work.
1265 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1266 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1267 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1268 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1269 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1270 mode. Closes: #459426
1271 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1276 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1279 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1287 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1288 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1289 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1290 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1291 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1292 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1296 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1299 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1300 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1301 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1302 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1306 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1309 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1310 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1311 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1312 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1313 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1317 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1320 debian/package.triggers files.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1324 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1327 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1331 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1334 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1335 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1336 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1337 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1342 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1345 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1349 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1352 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1353 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1355 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1360 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1364 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1365 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1366 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1370 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1377 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1384 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1387 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1389 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1390 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1391 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1393 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1394 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1395 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1399 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1402 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1403 * Update urls to web page.
1404 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1405 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1406 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1407 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1411 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1414 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1415 - typo in alternatives call
1416 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1418 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1419 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1423 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1426 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1431 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1437 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1446 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1448 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1449 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1450 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1451 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1452 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1453 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1454 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1455 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1456 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1457 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1458 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1465 package install. Closes: #415717
1466 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1467 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1468 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1469 script and then remove the python files.
1470 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1471 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1472 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1473 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1474 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1475 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1476 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1477 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1478 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1479 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1480 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1481 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1482 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1486 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Correct typo in french translation
1492 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1493 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1495 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1497 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1498 Closes: #406921, #381940
1499 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1501 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1502 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1503 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1504 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1505 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1506 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1507 specified). Closes: #381851
1508 * Misc minor changes.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1512 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1519 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1520 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1524 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1530 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1531 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1534 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1535 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1537 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1538 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1539 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1540 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1544 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1547 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1550 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1560 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1566 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1567 a difficult situation.
1568 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1569 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1570 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1571 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1572 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1573 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1574 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1575 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1576 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1577 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1581 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Non-maintainer upload.
1584 * Update of dh_python
1585 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1586 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1588 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1589 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1590 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1591 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1592 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1594 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1596 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Non-maintainer upload.
1599 * Update of dh_python
1600 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1601 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1602 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1603 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1604 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1605 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1606 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1607 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1608 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1609 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1611 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1612 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1613 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1614 the not too-distant future).
1615 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1616 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1617 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1618 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1619 thus made the build fail.
1621 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1623 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Non-maintainer upload.
1626 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1628 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1630 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1633 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1634 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1635 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1636 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1637 package. Closes: #301424
1638 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1639 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1640 fonts). Closes: #372686
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1644 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1650 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1651 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1652 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1653 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1654 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1655 above, but already depends on that.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1659 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1662 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1663 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1664 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1665 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1666 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1670 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1676 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1682 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1683 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1687 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1690 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1694 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1698 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1699 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1700 new version (0.24.1).
1701 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1702 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1705 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1706 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1707 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1708 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1709 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1710 new directory on their own.
1711 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1712 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1716 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1719 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1720 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1721 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1722 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1726 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1729 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1730 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1731 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1732 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1733 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1737 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1743 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1747 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1748 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1752 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1753 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1759 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1760 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1762 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1763 ignored. Closes: #337664
1765 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1770 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1776 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1781 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1782 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1783 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1784 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1785 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1786 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1787 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1794 version. Closes: #350607
1795 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1796 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1797 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1798 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1805 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1806 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1807 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1811 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1818 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1824 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1827 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1831 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1834 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1835 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1836 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1837 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1838 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1839 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1843 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1846 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1847 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1852 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1855 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1859 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1862 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1866 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1869 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1870 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1871 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1872 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1873 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1874 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1878 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1882 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1883 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1884 link. Closes: #346405
1885 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1887 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1888 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1889 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1890 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1891 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1892 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1893 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1897 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1904 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1910 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1913 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1917 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1920 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1925 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1929 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1930 installed. Closes: #342033
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1934 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1937 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1938 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1939 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1944 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1950 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1960 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1961 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1962 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1966 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1969 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1974 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1981 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1987 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1990 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1991 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1992 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1993 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1994 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1995 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1996 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1998 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2005 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2006 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2013 in standard man dirs.
2014 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2027 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2046 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2049 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2050 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2057 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2058 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2059 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2061 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2063 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2069 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2078 mode. Closes: #324161
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2085 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2086 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2087 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2088 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2096 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2097 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2098 is necesary for sanity.
2099 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2100 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2107 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2108 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2115 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2125 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2128 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2129 released, so use at your own risk.
2130 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2131 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2133 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2134 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2135 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2136 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2137 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2138 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2139 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2140 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2141 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2142 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2143 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2144 including twice per config file line now..
2145 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2146 and simplfy the rules file.
2147 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2148 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2149 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2151 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2152 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2159 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2166 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2173 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2180 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2181 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2182 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2183 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2184 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2185 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2192 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2193 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2194 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2202 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2203 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2211 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2212 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2213 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2221 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2222 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2223 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2243 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2244 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2245 unknown. Closes: #282924
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Spanish man page updates.
2259 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2273 * dh_desktop: reindent
2274 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2275 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2287 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2293 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2297 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2300 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2301 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2305 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2327 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2334 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2335 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2336 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2337 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2338 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2339 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2341 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2342 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2343 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2344 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2345 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2346 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2347 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2348 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2349 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2350 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2351 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2352 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2353 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2354 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2355 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2356 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2370 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2374 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2377 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2384 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2391 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2401 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2413 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2416 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2417 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2418 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2422 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2425 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2429 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2432 but occasionally right and necessary.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2436 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2439 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2440 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2441 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2442 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2443 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2447 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2450 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2452 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2453 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2454 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2455 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2456 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2457 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2458 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2459 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2460 postinst scripts for udebs.
2461 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2465 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2468 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2470 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2471 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2475 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2481 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2488 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2498 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2505 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2509 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2512 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2515 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2516 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2526 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2529 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2533 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2536 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2537 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2538 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2540 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2542 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2543 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2544 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2551 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2556 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2559 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2560 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2561 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2566 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2581 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2582 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2583 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2584 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2585 associated -dbg packages.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2592 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2599 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2606 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2613 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2621 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2628 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2636 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2644 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2645 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2646 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2647 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2648 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2649 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2650 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2651 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2652 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2653 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2660 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2668 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2669 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2676 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2677 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2685 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2692 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2699 out section number. Closes: #204731
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2725 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2726 removal. Closes: #204286
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2733 renaming. Closes: #203548
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2740 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2741 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2745 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2757 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2763 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2766 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2767 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2768 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2775 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2776 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2780 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2786 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2796 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2801 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2804 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2811 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2813 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2814 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2818 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2821 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2829 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2841 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2845 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2848 it break hard links (see #188663).
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2855 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2865 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2869 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2870 debconf-mergetemplates
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2874 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2877 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2881 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2884 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2888 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2891 * Update debhelper(1).
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2895 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2898 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2899 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2900 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2901 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2902 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2906 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2909 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2910 the shell. Closes: #178524
2911 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2915 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2918 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2922 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2925 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2929 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2932 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2933 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2934 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2935 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2940 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2943 files from installation.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2947 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2950 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2951 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2955 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2958 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2962 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2965 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2969 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2975 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2981 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2985 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2986 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2988 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2992 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2995 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2996 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2997 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2998 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3002 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3005 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3009 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3012 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3013 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3017 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3021 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3036 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3037 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3038 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3046 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3047 practice. Closes: #163303
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3057 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3067 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3069 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3070 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3071 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3072 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3073 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3080 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3085 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3091 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3101 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3131 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3134 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3135 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3136 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3137 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3142 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3148 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3155 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3158 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3159 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3163 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3166 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3167 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3168 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3169 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3170 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3174 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3177 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3179 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3184 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3187 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3191 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3194 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3195 right thing. Closes: #150644
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3199 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Stupid, evil typo.
3202 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3206 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3213 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3216 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3217 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3222 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3228 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3231 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3235 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3238 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3239 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3244 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3247 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3251 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3257 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3260 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3261 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3265 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3271 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Removing perl warning message.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3277 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3280 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3281 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3282 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3283 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3284 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3285 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3286 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3287 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3291 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3297 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3304 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3307 debconf-mergetemplate.
3308 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3309 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3313 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3316 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3317 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3318 dh_install, which ...
3319 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3320 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3321 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3322 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3323 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3324 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3325 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3326 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3327 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3328 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3329 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3330 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3331 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3332 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3333 other minor changes.
3334 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3335 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3336 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3337 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3338 course there's -X ..)
3339 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3340 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3341 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3343 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3344 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3345 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3346 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3347 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3352 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3358 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3361 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3371 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3377 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3383 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3389 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3392 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3393 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3394 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3395 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3397 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3398 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3402 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3408 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3411 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3415 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3418 upset. Closes: #131322
3420 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3422 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3425 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3426 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3427 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3428 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3429 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3430 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3431 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3432 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3433 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3434 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3435 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3436 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3437 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3438 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3439 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3441 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3445 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3448 - Better indenting of generated code.
3449 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3453 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3457 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3458 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3459 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3460 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3461 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3462 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3463 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3467 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3470 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3474 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3477 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3478 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3479 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3480 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3481 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3482 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3483 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3484 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3485 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3486 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3487 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3488 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3489 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3490 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3491 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3496 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3502 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3505 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3506 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3510 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3513 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3514 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3518 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3524 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3527 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3528 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3529 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3530 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3531 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3536 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3542 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3545 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3549 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3552 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3557 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3566 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3570 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3576 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3580 Also some indentation fixes.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3584 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3587 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3588 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3589 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3590 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3591 Closes: #106514, #85520
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3601 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3607 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3613 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3619 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3628 change it in debhelper v4..
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3632 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3641 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3645 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3648 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3652 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3658 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3661 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3662 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3663 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3664 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3665 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3666 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3667 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3668 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3669 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3670 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3671 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3672 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3676 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3679 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3683 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3690 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3693 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3694 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3695 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3696 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3697 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3698 program those options go to. So, for example,
3699 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3700 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3701 something complex. Closes: #89311
3702 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3706 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3709 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3710 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3711 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3715 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3718 through loop. Closes: #98598
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3722 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Missing semi-colon.
3725 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3726 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3730 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3733 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3734 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3735 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3739 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3742 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3743 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3747 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3750 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3754 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3757 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3758 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3762 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3765 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3766 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3767 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3771 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3774 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3775 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3776 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3780 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3783 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3787 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3793 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3799 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3805 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3811 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3814 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3818 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3821 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3822 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3823 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3824 followed. Closes: #85483
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3828 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3830 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3831 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3832 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3836 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3839 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3840 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3841 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3842 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3843 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3844 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3845 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3846 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3847 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3848 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3849 Closes: #88464, #77743
3850 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3851 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3852 us to deal with that gracefully.
3853 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3855 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3856 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3857 a while, Closes: #51225
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3861 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3867 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3870 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3874 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3878 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3883 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3886 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3887 don't make packlist files.
3888 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3889 debhelper coding standards.
3890 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3891 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3895 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3898 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3902 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3905 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3906 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3907 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3908 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3909 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3910 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3911 but is mildly deprecated.
3912 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3913 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3914 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3915 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3916 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3917 switching to statoverrides..
3918 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3919 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3920 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3921 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3922 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3923 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3925 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3926 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3927 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3928 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3929 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3930 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3931 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3932 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3933 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3935 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3936 variable names, pod man pages).
3937 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3938 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3939 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3940 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3941 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3942 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3943 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3947 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3953 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3960 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3963 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3969 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3970 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3971 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3977 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3978 they were previously ignored.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3984 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3985 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3991 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3992 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3993 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3999 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4005 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4006 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4012 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4013 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4014 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4015 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4016 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4017 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4018 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4019 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4020 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4021 it is an obsolete program.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4027 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4035 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4041 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4043 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4045 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4047 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * typo: Closes, #78567
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4078 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4079 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4080 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4081 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4082 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4089 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4094 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4097 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4098 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4099 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4100 backwards-compatibility.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4104 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4107 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4108 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4109 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4110 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4111 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4112 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4114 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4115 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4116 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4118 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4120 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4121 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4122 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4123 should now be raised to severity important..
4124 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4125 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4129 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4132 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4137 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4155 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4165 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4166 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4167 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4168 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4172 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4181 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4182 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4183 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4184 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4185 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4186 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4191 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4194 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4207 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4215 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4216 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4217 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4218 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4226 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4229 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4232 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4233 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4236 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4238 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4239 the TODO entry about it.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4253 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4254 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4261 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4262 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4263 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4264 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4284 (this appears to be logal).
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4291 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4292 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4293 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4294 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4307 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4308 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4309 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4310 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4323 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4337 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4338 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4339 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4360 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4361 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4362 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4363 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4364 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4365 notice until v2 is complete.
4366 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4367 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4368 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4369 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4370 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4371 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4373 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4374 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4375 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4376 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4396 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4410 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4411 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4412 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4413 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4421 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4422 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4423 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4431 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4432 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4439 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4443 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4446 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4450 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4457 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4460 depend on the build and install targets.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4464 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4467 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4493 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4494 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4495 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4496 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4497 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4498 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4500 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4501 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4502 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4503 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4504 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4505 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4506 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4510 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4516 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4525 right place. Closes: #55065
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4529 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4536 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4539 * Copyright date updates.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4543 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4546 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4551 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4557 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4564 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4570 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4582 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4585 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4586 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4587 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4588 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4589 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4590 bits until all files have been registered.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4594 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installmanpages:
4597 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4598 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4599 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4600 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4601 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4602 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4603 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4604 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4605 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4606 otherwise change the result at all.
4608 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4609 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4610 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4611 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4612 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4617 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4623 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4626 act on files that don't exist.
4627 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4628 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4629 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4631 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4632 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4633 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4634 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4638 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4644 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4650 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4653 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4657 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4660 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4662 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4663 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4664 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4668 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4671 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4672 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4673 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4674 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4675 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4676 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4677 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4679 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4681 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4685 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4692 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4707 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4726 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4727 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4728 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4729 I made some changes, though:
4730 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4731 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4732 that is a clear violation of policy.
4733 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4734 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4735 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4736 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4737 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4738 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4739 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4740 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4741 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4743 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4756 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4763 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4764 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4782 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4785 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4786 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4787 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4788 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4789 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4790 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4791 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4801 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4805 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4806 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4810 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4816 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4819 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4823 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4826 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4827 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4831 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4833 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4842 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4846 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4849 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4850 for the dependancies to be generated.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4857 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4864 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4865 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4866 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4874 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4875 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4894 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4907 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4908 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4909 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4910 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4911 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4912 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4913 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4914 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4915 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4916 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4917 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4918 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4922 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4925 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4926 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4928 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4929 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4930 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4931 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4932 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4933 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4935 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4936 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4943 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4957 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4965 for building debhelper.
4966 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4980 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4984 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4987 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4988 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4989 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4990 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4991 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4992 it's always available.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4996 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4999 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5000 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5001 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5005 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5008 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5009 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5019 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5022 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5035 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5036 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5037 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5041 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5044 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5052 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5053 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5055 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5056 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5066 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5072 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5075 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5082 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5083 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5085 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5089 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5092 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5093 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5094 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5101 things if CDPATH is set.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5105 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5111 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5114 seems to make sense for the transition.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5118 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5121 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5126 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5129 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5130 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5137 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5144 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5145 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5146 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5147 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5151 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5157 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5160 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5161 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5162 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5163 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5164 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5165 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5166 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5167 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5168 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5169 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5177 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5178 * README: mention doc/v2
5179 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5180 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5186 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5187 be using this script RSN.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5194 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5195 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5196 more than 1 init script.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5200 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5203 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Changed perl version detection.
5210 * Changed call to find.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5217 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5219 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Really include dh_installpam.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5230 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5233 * Wrote man page for same.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5240 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5241 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5256 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5257 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5258 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5259 x bit was being set!
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5263 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5266 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5267 well. (Closes: 38900)
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5271 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5274 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5275 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5298 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5301 help from Julian Gilbey.
5302 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5303 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5304 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5305 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5306 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5307 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5308 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5313 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5341 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5348 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5355 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5359 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5368 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5372 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5387 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5388 may be deleted. (#35845)
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5392 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * Various man page enhancements.
5395 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5400 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5403 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5404 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5411 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5412 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5413 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5415 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5416 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Another very minor typo fix.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * Very minor typo fix.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5442 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5443 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5456 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5457 variables properly (#34850).
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5461 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5467 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5470 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5471 (automatically generated by build process).
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5477 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5484 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5485 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5487 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5491 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5494 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5498 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * README: minor typo fix.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5507 leave it at that. :-)
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5511 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5526 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5527 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5528 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5532 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5535 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5542 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5549 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5550 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5551 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5552 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5559 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5560 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5561 Craig Small for spotting this.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5565 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5568 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5569 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5579 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5582 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5586 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5588 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5589 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5590 working on the last version of debhelper.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5597 being made. (#23255)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5607 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5610 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5614 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5617 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5618 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5619 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5620 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5624 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5627 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5628 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5629 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5630 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5632 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5633 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5635 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5646 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5655 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5656 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5657 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5658 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5659 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5660 suidregister actually supports it.
5661 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5662 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5666 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5673 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5676 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5677 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5678 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5679 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5680 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5681 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5682 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5686 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5688 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5689 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5693 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5696 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5697 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5698 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5699 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5703 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5706 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5708 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5709 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5710 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5711 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5712 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5713 effect, either. (#30118)
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5717 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5723 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5726 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5727 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5731 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5740 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5741 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5742 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5743 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5747 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5750 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5751 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5755 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5761 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5764 packages, painlessly.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5768 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5774 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * The perl conversion is complete.
5790 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5792 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5793 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5794 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5799 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5802 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5803 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5804 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5808 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5811 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5813 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5815 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5816 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5820 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5823 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5824 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5828 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5837 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5838 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5839 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5840 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5841 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5845 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5848 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5849 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5850 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5851 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5855 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5858 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5862 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5865 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5866 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5867 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5868 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5869 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5870 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5871 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5872 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5876 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5885 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5886 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5887 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5892 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5895 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5899 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5902 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5906 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5909 sections of shared libraries.
5910 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5911 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5912 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5913 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5914 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5915 things you don't want them to.
5916 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5917 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5921 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5924 shared libraries. (#26414)
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5928 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5930 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5931 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5932 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5933 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5937 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5941 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5943 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5944 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5945 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5946 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5947 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5951 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5954 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5958 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5961 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5962 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5967 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5970 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5974 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5977 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5978 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5979 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5980 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5981 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5983 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5984 remove debian/files properly.
5985 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5986 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5987 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5988 * Removed bogus menu file.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5992 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5995 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5999 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6002 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6003 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6004 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6005 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6006 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6007 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6011 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6014 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6015 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6016 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6017 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6021 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6028 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6031 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6032 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6034 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6035 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6036 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6037 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6038 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6039 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6043 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6046 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6047 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6048 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6049 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6050 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6051 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6052 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6053 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6054 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6055 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6056 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6057 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6058 passed any switches.
6059 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6063 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6065 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6066 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6067 at all for a long while.
6068 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6069 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6070 large chunks in the process.
6071 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6072 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6073 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6078 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6081 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6083 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6088 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6091 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6092 that don't always have the same files in them.
6093 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6094 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6095 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6099 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6103 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6104 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6105 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6106 updating 27 man pages.
6107 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6108 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6109 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6110 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6111 programs act on. (#25247)
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6115 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6119 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6120 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6121 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6122 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6123 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6124 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6129 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6136 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6143 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6146 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6150 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6156 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6159 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6160 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6161 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6162 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6163 package by accident.
6164 * Is version 1.0 next?
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6168 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6171 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6172 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6176 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6179 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6180 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6181 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6182 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6183 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6185 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6190 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6193 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6194 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6201 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6205 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6208 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6209 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6214 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6216 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6220 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6223 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6224 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6229 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6231 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6235 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6238 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6239 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6240 past week. Thanks, guys!
6242 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6243 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6244 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6245 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6246 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6247 would do in the same situation.
6248 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6249 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6251 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6253 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6254 permissions changed.
6255 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6256 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6257 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6258 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6259 files are treated identically.
6260 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6261 * Minor man page fixes.
6262 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6263 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6264 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6268 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6271 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6272 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6273 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6274 use -X multiple times, too.
6275 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6276 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6280 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6283 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6284 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6288 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6291 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6295 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6298 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6299 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6300 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6301 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6302 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6303 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6304 shape if you're starting a new package.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6308 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6311 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6315 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6318 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6319 because of missing symlinks.
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6323 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6329 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6332 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6333 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6334 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6335 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6336 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6338 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6339 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6343 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6345 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6346 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6347 to be changed after the fact :-)
6348 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6352 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6354 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6355 no version string after the -V.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6359 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6361 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6362 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6367 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6370 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6374 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6377 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6378 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6379 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6380 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6381 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6382 I always welcome corrections!
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6386 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6392 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6395 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6396 * Documented this new switch.
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6400 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6403 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6404 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6405 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6406 no packages use the old behavior.
6408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6410 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6412 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6413 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6414 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6418 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6421 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6425 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6427 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6431 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6434 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6438 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6440 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6441 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6442 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6443 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6447 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6453 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6456 into the source package by accident.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6460 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6463 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6464 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6465 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6466 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6467 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6468 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6473 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6477 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6478 inspired to implement some of it.
6479 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6483 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6486 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6490 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6493 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6494 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6498 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6500 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6501 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6502 have done.) (#17598)
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6506 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6521 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6525 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6528 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6529 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6533 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6536 argument processor in perl.
6537 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6538 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6539 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6540 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6547 type directories. (#16933)
6548 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6549 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6550 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6551 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6552 are supported. (#16935)
6553 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6561 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6569 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6570 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6571 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6572 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6573 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6574 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6581 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6582 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6584 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6585 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6586 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6587 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6588 a given package, or -i or -a.
6589 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6590 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6591 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6592 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6593 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6594 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6595 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6596 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6597 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6599 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6600 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6601 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6605 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6608 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6609 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6614 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6617 does not have a section.
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6621 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6624 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6625 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6626 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6630 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * Fixed typo #16215.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6636 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6639 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6640 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6641 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6642 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6643 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6648 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6651 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6652 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6653 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6664 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6670 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6673 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6674 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6675 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6676 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6677 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6678 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6682 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6684 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6688 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6690 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6691 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6695 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6698 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6699 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6700 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6704 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6706 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6707 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6711 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6713 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6717 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6719 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6720 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6724 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6726 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6727 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6731 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6733 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6737 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6740 postinst, postrm, etc.
6742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6744 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6746 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6753 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6754 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6755 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6756 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6757 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6761 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6763 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6764 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6765 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6769 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6771 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6772 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6776 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6778 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6779 installing package files into.
6780 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6785 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6787 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6789 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6793 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6795 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6799 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6802 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6806 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6808 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6809 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6810 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6811 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6812 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6816 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6818 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6819 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6820 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6821 multiple binary packages.
6822 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6823 should rebuild them with this version.
6824 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6828 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6830 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6831 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6835 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6837 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6838 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6842 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6844 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6845 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6846 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6847 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6848 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6849 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6850 debian/README.debian.
6851 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6852 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6853 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6854 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6855 in a few situations.)
6857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6859 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6861 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6865 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6867 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6871 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6873 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6874 * Fixed several man pages.
6876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6878 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6880 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6881 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6882 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6886 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6888 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6889 is ready for general use.
6890 * Added man pages for all commands.
6891 * Multiple binary package support.
6892 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6893 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6894 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6896 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6897 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6898 auto-installed as parameters.
6899 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6901 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6904 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6905 the package build directory it is to act on.
6906 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6907 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6908 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6912 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6914 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6915 ready to replace debstd.
6917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400