1 debhelper (8.1.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:30:01 -0400
7 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
10 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
11 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
12 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
13 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
14 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
15 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
16 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
21 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
25 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
26 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
28 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
29 changes may be added to that mode.
30 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
31 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
32 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
33 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
34 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
35 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
36 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
37 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
38 * Removed old example rules files.
39 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
43 * update french translation.
44 * Fix french misspelling.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
48 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
51 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
55 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
58 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
60 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
61 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
62 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
63 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
64 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
68 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
71 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
72 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
73 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
74 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
75 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
76 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
78 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
79 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
80 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
81 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
82 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
83 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
84 (Thanks, David Prévot)
85 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
86 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
87 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
88 target fails. Closes: #601037
89 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
91 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
92 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
93 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
95 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
97 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
98 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
100 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
101 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
102 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
104 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
106 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
109 * update french translation.
110 * Fix french misspelling.
111 * French translation update after massive man page typography
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
115 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
121 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
125 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
127 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
131 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
133 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
134 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
135 introduced by the fix to #527990.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
139 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
142 changes are planned for that mode.
143 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
144 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
145 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
146 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
147 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
148 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
149 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
150 (genesis) still uses them.
151 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
152 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
153 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
154 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
155 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
156 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
157 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
158 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
159 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
160 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
161 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
162 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
163 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
164 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
165 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
166 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
167 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
168 commands. (See #570039)
169 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
171 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
176 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
180 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
181 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
182 in control file or debhelper config files.
183 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
187 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
190 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
191 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
195 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
198 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
202 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
205 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
206 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
210 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Updated French translation.
213 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
214 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
215 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
216 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
218 * Typo. Closes: #571968
219 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
220 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
221 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
222 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
223 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
224 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
225 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
226 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
227 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
229 * dh: Improve documentation.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
233 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
235 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
236 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
237 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
241 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
244 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
248 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
251 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
255 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
258 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
259 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
260 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
261 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
262 options that they do not support.
263 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
264 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
265 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
266 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
267 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
268 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
273 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
277 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
278 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
279 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
280 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
281 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
282 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
283 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
284 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
285 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
289 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
292 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
293 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
294 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
295 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
299 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Typo. Closes: #558654
302 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
303 installed. Closes: #558782
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
307 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
310 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
311 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
312 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
313 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
314 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
318 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
320 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
321 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
322 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
323 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
327 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
330 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
331 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
335 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
337 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
341 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
343 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
344 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
345 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
346 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
347 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
348 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
349 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
350 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
351 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
352 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
353 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
354 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
355 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
356 time soon.) Closes: #554509
357 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
359 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
360 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
361 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
362 document id. Closes: #555677
363 * Typo. Closes: #555659
364 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
365 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
366 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
367 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
369 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
370 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
371 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
376 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
379 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
380 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
381 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
382 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
383 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
384 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
385 translation (#494300 part 2)
388 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
390 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
391 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
392 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
393 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
394 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
398 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
401 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
402 (It was only run once due to logging.)
403 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
404 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
405 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
406 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
407 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
408 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
409 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
410 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
411 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
412 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
416 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
420 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
423 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
424 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
428 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
431 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
432 flag with arch all/any packages.
433 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
434 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
435 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
436 situation. Closes: #540794
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
440 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
444 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
445 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
446 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
447 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
448 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
451 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
452 the default. Closes: #538201
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
457 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
461 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
462 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
463 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
464 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
465 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
467 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
468 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
469 * Above Closes: #491117
470 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
475 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
481 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
482 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
483 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
487 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
490 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
491 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
492 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
493 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
494 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
499 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
502 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
503 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
507 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
509 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
513 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
515 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
516 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
518 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
519 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
520 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
524 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
526 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
527 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
531 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
537 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
539 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
540 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
541 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
546 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
548 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
552 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
555 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
556 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
557 created by using `python' first during build and install.
559 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
564 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
566 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
570 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
572 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
573 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
577 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
579 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
583 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
585 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
589 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
591 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
592 contributed by Modestas Vainius
593 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
594 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
595 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
596 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
597 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
598 that support it. Closes: #480577
599 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
600 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
601 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
603 - Adds support for cmake.
604 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
605 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
607 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
609 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
610 that use them. The options are:
611 --sourcedir, --destdir
612 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
613 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
614 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
615 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
616 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
626 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
629 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
630 default. Closes: #537140
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
634 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
637 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
638 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
642 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
645 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
652 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
656 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
659 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
661 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
662 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
663 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
667 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
670 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
671 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
672 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
676 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
679 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
680 warning or deprecation message.
681 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
682 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
683 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
684 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
685 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
686 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
687 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
688 Closes: #534639, #357434
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
692 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
698 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
701 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
702 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
703 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
704 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
706 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
707 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
708 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
712 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
718 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
725 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
728 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
732 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
736 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
737 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
739 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
740 file support. Closes: #494914
741 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
745 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
748 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
749 parameters. Closes: #527256
750 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
751 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
752 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
756 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
760 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
761 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
762 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
766 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
769 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
770 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
771 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
775 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
778 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
779 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
781 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
782 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
783 by triggers). Closes: #521181
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
787 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
791 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
795 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
798 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
799 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
800 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
801 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
806 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
812 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
815 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
816 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
817 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
818 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
819 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
821 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
822 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
823 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
824 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
825 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
826 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
830 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
833 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
834 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
835 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
836 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
837 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
839 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
843 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
845 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
849 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
851 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
852 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
853 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
854 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
855 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
856 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
857 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
858 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
859 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
860 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
861 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
865 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
867 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
868 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
870 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
871 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
872 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
873 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
875 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
876 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
880 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
882 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
883 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
884 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
885 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
886 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
887 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
888 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
890 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
891 that uses them. Affected options are:
892 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
893 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
894 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
895 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
896 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
897 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
898 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
899 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
900 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
901 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
902 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
903 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
907 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
914 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
920 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
922 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
923 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
925 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
926 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
927 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
928 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
929 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
931 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
933 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
934 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
935 rules (see bug #509756).
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
939 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
945 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
946 * Typo. Closes: #493062
947 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
948 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
952 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
955 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
956 empty files. Closes: #490937
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
960 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
966 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
973 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
976 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
977 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
978 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
979 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
984 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
986 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
987 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
988 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
989 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
993 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
996 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
997 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
998 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
999 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1000 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1004 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1011 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1014 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1015 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1016 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1017 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1018 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1019 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1020 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1021 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1022 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1026 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1029 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1030 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1031 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1032 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1034 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1035 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1036 breaking backwards compatibility.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1040 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1043 message in perl 5.10.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1047 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1053 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1056 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1060 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1063 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1067 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1070 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1071 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1072 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1073 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1074 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1075 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1076 logging by dh_listpackages.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1080 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1083 run and there are no packages of that type.
1084 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1085 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1086 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1087 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1089 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1090 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1094 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1097 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1098 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1102 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1105 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1106 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1108 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1109 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1110 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1111 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1112 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1113 planned but not yet implemented.)
1114 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1115 if the Makefile has such a target.
1116 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1117 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1118 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1119 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1120 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1121 but not yet implemented.)
1122 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1123 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1124 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1125 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1126 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1128 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1130 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1131 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1133 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1134 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1135 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1140 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1143 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1144 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1148 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1150 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1151 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1152 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1156 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1162 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1168 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1171 just those installed by the program.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1175 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1178 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1179 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1183 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1186 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1187 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1188 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1189 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1193 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1196 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1197 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1201 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1204 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1205 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1209 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1212 with policy. Closes: #461392
1213 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1214 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1215 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1216 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1217 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1221 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1224 Closes: #460340, #460351
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1228 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1231 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1232 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1233 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1234 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1238 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1241 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1242 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1243 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1244 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1245 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1246 package build directory won't work.
1247 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1248 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1249 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1250 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1251 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1252 mode. Closes: #459426
1253 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1258 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1261 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1265 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1269 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1270 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1271 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1272 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1273 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1274 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1281 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1282 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1283 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1284 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1291 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1292 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1293 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1294 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1295 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1299 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1302 debian/package.triggers files.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1306 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1309 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1313 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1316 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1317 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1318 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1319 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1324 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1327 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1331 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1334 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1335 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1337 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1342 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1346 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1347 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1348 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1352 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1359 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1366 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1369 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1371 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1372 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1373 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1375 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1376 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1377 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1381 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1384 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1385 * Update urls to web page.
1386 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1387 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1388 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1389 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1393 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1396 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1397 - typo in alternatives call
1398 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1400 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1401 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1405 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1408 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1413 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1419 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1425 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1428 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1430 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1431 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1432 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1433 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1434 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1435 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1436 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1437 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1438 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1439 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1440 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1444 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1447 package install. Closes: #415717
1448 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1449 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1450 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1451 script and then remove the python files.
1452 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1453 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1454 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1455 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1456 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1457 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1458 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1459 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1460 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1461 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1462 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1463 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1464 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1468 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Correct typo in french translation
1474 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1475 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1477 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1479 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1480 Closes: #406921, #381940
1481 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1483 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1484 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1485 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1486 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1487 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1488 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1489 specified). Closes: #381851
1490 * Misc minor changes.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1501 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1502 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1506 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1512 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1513 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1516 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1517 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1519 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1520 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1521 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1522 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1526 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1529 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1532 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1536 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1542 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1548 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1549 a difficult situation.
1550 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1551 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1552 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1553 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1554 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1555 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1556 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1557 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1558 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1559 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1563 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Non-maintainer upload.
1566 * Update of dh_python
1567 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1568 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1570 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1571 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1572 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1573 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1574 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1576 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1578 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Non-maintainer upload.
1581 * Update of dh_python
1582 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1583 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1584 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1585 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1586 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1587 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1588 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1589 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1590 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1591 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1593 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1594 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1595 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1596 the not too-distant future).
1597 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1598 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1599 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1600 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1601 thus made the build fail.
1603 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1605 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Non-maintainer upload.
1608 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1610 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1612 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1615 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1616 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1617 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1618 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1619 package. Closes: #301424
1620 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1621 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1622 fonts). Closes: #372686
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1626 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1632 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1633 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1634 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1635 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1636 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1637 above, but already depends on that.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1641 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1644 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1645 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1646 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1647 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1648 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1652 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1658 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1664 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1665 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1669 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1672 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1676 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1680 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1681 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1682 new version (0.24.1).
1683 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1684 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1687 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1688 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1689 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1690 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1691 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1692 new directory on their own.
1693 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1694 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1698 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1701 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1702 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1703 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1704 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1708 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1711 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1712 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1713 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1714 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1715 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1719 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1725 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1729 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1730 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1734 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1735 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1739 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1741 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1742 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1744 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1745 ignored. Closes: #337664
1747 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1752 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1758 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1763 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1764 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1765 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1766 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1767 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1768 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1769 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1773 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1776 version. Closes: #350607
1777 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1778 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1779 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1780 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1784 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1787 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1788 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1789 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1793 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1800 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1806 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1809 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1813 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1816 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1817 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1818 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1819 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1820 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1821 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1828 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1829 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1834 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1837 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1841 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1844 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1848 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1851 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1852 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1853 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1854 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1855 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1856 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1860 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1864 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1865 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1866 link. Closes: #346405
1867 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1869 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1870 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1871 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1872 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1873 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1874 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1875 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1879 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1892 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1895 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1899 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1902 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1911 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1912 installed. Closes: #342033
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1916 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1919 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1920 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1921 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1926 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1932 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1938 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1942 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1943 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1944 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1948 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1951 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1956 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1963 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1969 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1972 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1973 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1974 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1975 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1976 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1977 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1978 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1980 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1987 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1988 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1995 in standard man dirs.
1996 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2009 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2028 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2031 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2032 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2039 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2040 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2041 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2043 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2045 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2060 mode. Closes: #324161
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2067 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2068 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2069 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2070 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2078 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2079 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2080 is necesary for sanity.
2081 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2082 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2089 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2090 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2097 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2110 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2111 released, so use at your own risk.
2112 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2113 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2115 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2116 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2117 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2118 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2119 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2120 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2121 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2122 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2123 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2124 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2125 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2126 including twice per config file line now..
2127 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2128 and simplfy the rules file.
2129 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2130 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2131 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2133 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2134 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2141 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2148 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2155 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2162 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2163 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2164 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2165 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2166 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2167 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2174 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2175 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2176 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2181 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2184 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2185 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2190 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2193 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2194 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2195 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2203 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2204 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2205 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2225 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2226 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2227 unknown. Closes: #282924
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2231 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Spanish man page updates.
2241 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2255 * dh_desktop: reindent
2256 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2257 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2269 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2275 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2279 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2282 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2283 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2287 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2309 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2316 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2317 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2318 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2319 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2320 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2321 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2323 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2324 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2325 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2326 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2327 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2328 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2329 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2330 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2331 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2332 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2333 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2334 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2335 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2336 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2337 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2338 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2352 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2356 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2359 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2366 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2373 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2395 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2398 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2399 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2400 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2404 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2407 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2411 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2414 but occasionally right and necessary.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2418 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2421 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2422 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2423 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2424 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2425 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2429 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2432 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2434 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2435 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2436 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2437 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2438 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2439 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2440 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2441 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2442 postinst scripts for udebs.
2443 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2447 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2450 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2452 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2453 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2480 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2487 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2494 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2497 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2498 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2508 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2511 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2515 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2518 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2519 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2520 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2522 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2524 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2525 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2526 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2533 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2541 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2542 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2543 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2554 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2563 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2564 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2565 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2566 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2567 associated -dbg packages.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2574 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2581 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2588 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2595 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2603 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2610 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2618 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2626 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2627 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2628 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2629 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2630 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2631 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2632 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2633 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2634 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2635 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2642 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2647 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2650 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2651 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2658 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2659 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2664 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2667 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2674 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2678 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2681 out section number. Closes: #204731
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2698 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2707 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2708 removal. Closes: #204286
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2712 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2715 renaming. Closes: #203548
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2722 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2723 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2739 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2745 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2748 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2749 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2750 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2757 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2758 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2775 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2778 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2786 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2793 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2795 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2796 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2803 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2808 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2811 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2823 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2830 it break hard links (see #188663).
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2837 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2847 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2851 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2852 debconf-mergetemplates
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2856 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2859 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2863 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2866 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2873 * Update debhelper(1).
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2877 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2880 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2881 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2882 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2883 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2884 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2888 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2891 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2892 the shell. Closes: #178524
2893 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2897 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2900 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2904 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2907 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2911 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2914 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2915 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2916 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2917 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2922 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2925 files from installation.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2929 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2932 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2933 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2937 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2940 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2944 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2947 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2951 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2957 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2963 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2967 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2968 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2970 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2974 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2977 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2978 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2979 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2980 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2984 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2987 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2991 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2994 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2995 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2999 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3003 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3018 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3019 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3020 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3028 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3029 practice. Closes: #163303
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3049 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3051 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3052 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3053 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3054 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3055 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3059 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3062 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3073 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3083 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3088 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3094 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3100 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3116 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3117 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3118 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3119 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3124 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3137 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3140 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3141 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3148 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3149 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3150 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3151 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3152 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3156 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3159 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3161 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3166 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3169 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3176 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3177 right thing. Closes: #150644
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3181 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Stupid, evil typo.
3184 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3188 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3195 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3198 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3199 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3204 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3213 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3217 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3220 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3221 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3226 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3229 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3233 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3239 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3242 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3243 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3247 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3253 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Removing perl warning message.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3259 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3262 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3263 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3264 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3265 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3266 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3267 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3268 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3269 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3273 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3286 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3289 debconf-mergetemplate.
3290 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3291 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3295 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3298 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3299 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3300 dh_install, which ...
3301 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3302 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3303 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3304 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3305 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3306 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3307 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3308 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3309 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3310 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3311 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3312 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3313 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3314 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3315 other minor changes.
3316 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3317 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3318 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3319 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3320 course there's -X ..)
3321 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3322 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3323 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3325 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3326 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3327 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3328 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3329 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3334 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3340 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3343 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3347 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3353 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3359 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3371 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3374 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3375 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3376 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3377 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3379 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3380 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3384 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3390 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3393 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3397 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3400 upset. Closes: #131322
3402 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3404 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3407 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3408 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3409 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3410 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3411 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3412 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3413 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3414 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3415 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3416 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3417 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3418 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3419 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3420 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3421 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3423 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3427 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3430 - Better indenting of generated code.
3431 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3435 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3439 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3440 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3441 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3442 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3443 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3444 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3445 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3449 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3452 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3456 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3459 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3460 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3461 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3462 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3463 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3464 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3465 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3466 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3467 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3468 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3469 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3470 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3471 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3472 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3473 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3478 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3484 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3487 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3488 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3492 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3495 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3496 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3500 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3506 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3509 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3510 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3511 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3512 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3513 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3518 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3524 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3527 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3534 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3539 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3545 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3548 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3552 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3558 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3562 Also some indentation fixes.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3569 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3570 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3571 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3572 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3573 Closes: #106514, #85520
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3577 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3589 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3601 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3607 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3610 change it in debhelper v4..
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3614 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3620 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3623 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3627 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3630 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3634 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3640 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3643 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3644 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3645 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3646 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3647 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3648 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3649 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3650 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3651 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3652 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3653 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3654 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3658 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3661 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3665 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3672 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3675 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3676 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3677 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3678 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3679 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3680 program those options go to. So, for example,
3681 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3682 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3683 something complex. Closes: #89311
3684 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3688 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3691 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3692 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3693 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3697 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3700 through loop. Closes: #98598
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3704 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Missing semi-colon.
3707 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3708 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3712 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3715 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3716 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3717 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3721 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3724 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3725 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3729 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3732 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3736 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3739 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3740 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3744 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3747 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3748 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3749 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3753 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3756 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3757 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3758 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3762 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3765 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3769 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3775 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3781 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3787 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3793 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3796 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3800 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3803 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3804 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3805 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3806 followed. Closes: #85483
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3810 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3812 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3813 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3814 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3818 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3821 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3822 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3823 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3824 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3825 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3826 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3827 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3828 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3829 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3830 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3831 Closes: #88464, #77743
3832 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3833 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3834 us to deal with that gracefully.
3835 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3837 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3838 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3839 a while, Closes: #51225
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3843 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3849 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3852 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3856 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3860 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3865 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3868 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3869 don't make packlist files.
3870 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3871 debhelper coding standards.
3872 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3873 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3877 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3880 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3884 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3887 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3888 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3889 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3890 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3891 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3892 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3893 but is mildly deprecated.
3894 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3895 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3896 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3897 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3898 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3899 switching to statoverrides..
3900 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3901 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3902 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3903 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3904 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3905 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3907 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3908 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3909 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3910 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3911 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3912 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3913 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3914 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3915 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3917 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3918 variable names, pod man pages).
3919 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3920 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3921 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3922 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3923 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3924 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3925 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3929 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3945 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3951 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3952 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3953 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3959 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3960 they were previously ignored.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3966 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3967 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3973 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3974 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3975 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3981 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3987 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3988 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3994 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3995 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3996 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3997 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3998 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3999 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4000 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4001 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4002 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4003 it is an obsolete program.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4009 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4017 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4023 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4025 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4027 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4029 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * typo: Closes, #78567
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4060 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4061 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4062 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4063 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4064 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4068 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4071 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4076 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4079 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4080 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4081 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4082 backwards-compatibility.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4089 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4090 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4091 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4092 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4093 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4094 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4096 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4097 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4098 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4100 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4102 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4103 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4104 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4105 should now be raised to severity important..
4106 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4107 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4111 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4114 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4137 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4144 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4147 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4148 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4149 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4150 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4160 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4163 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4164 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4165 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4166 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4167 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4168 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4173 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4176 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4189 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4197 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4198 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4199 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4200 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4208 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4211 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4214 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4215 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4218 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4220 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4221 the TODO entry about it.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4235 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4236 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4243 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4244 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4245 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4246 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4266 (this appears to be logal).
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4273 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4274 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4275 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4276 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4289 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4290 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4291 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4292 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4305 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4319 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4320 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4321 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4342 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4343 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4344 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4345 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4346 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4347 notice until v2 is complete.
4348 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4349 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4350 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4351 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4352 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4353 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4355 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4356 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4357 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4358 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4378 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4392 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4393 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4394 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4395 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4403 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4404 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4405 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4413 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4414 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4421 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4428 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4442 depend on the build and install targets.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4449 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4460 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4466 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4475 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4476 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4477 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4478 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4479 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4480 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4482 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4483 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4484 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4485 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4486 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4487 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4488 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4492 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4498 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4507 right place. Closes: #55065
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4511 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4518 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4521 * Copyright date updates.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4525 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4528 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4539 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4552 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4558 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4564 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4567 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4568 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4569 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4570 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4571 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4572 bits until all files have been registered.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installmanpages:
4579 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4580 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4581 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4582 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4583 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4584 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4585 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4586 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4587 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4588 otherwise change the result at all.
4590 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4591 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4592 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4593 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4594 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4599 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4605 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4608 act on files that don't exist.
4609 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4610 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4611 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4613 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4614 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4615 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4616 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4620 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4626 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4632 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4635 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4639 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4642 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4644 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4645 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4646 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4650 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4653 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4654 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4655 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4656 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4657 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4658 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4659 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4661 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4663 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4667 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4674 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4680 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4689 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4693 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4699 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4708 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4709 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4710 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4711 I made some changes, though:
4712 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4713 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4714 that is a clear violation of policy.
4715 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4716 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4717 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4718 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4719 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4720 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4721 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4722 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4723 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4725 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4738 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4745 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4746 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4751 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4764 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4767 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4768 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4769 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4770 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4771 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4772 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4773 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4787 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4788 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4801 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4808 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4809 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4815 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4824 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4828 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4831 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4832 for the dependancies to be generated.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4839 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4846 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4847 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4848 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4856 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4857 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4876 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4880 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4889 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4890 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4891 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4892 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4893 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4894 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4895 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4896 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4897 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4898 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4899 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4900 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4907 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4908 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4910 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4911 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4912 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4913 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4914 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4915 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4917 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4918 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4922 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4925 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4936 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4939 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4944 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4947 for building debhelper.
4948 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4962 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4966 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4969 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4970 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4971 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4972 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4973 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4974 it's always available.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4978 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4981 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4982 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4983 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4990 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4991 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5001 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5004 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5008 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5014 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5017 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5018 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5019 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5023 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5026 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5031 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5034 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5035 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5037 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5038 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5054 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5057 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5061 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5064 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5065 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5067 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5071 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5074 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5075 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5076 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5080 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5083 things if CDPATH is set.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5093 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5096 seems to make sense for the transition.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5100 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5103 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5108 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5111 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5112 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5116 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5119 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5123 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5126 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5127 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5128 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5129 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5133 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5139 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5142 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5143 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5144 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5145 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5146 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5147 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5148 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5149 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5150 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5151 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5159 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5160 * README: mention doc/v2
5161 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5162 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5166 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5168 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5169 be using this script RSN.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5176 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5177 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5178 more than 1 init script.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5185 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Changed perl version detection.
5192 * Changed call to find.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5199 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5201 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * Really include dh_installpam.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5215 * Wrote man page for same.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5222 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5223 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5238 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5239 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5240 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5241 x bit was being set!
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5248 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5249 well. (Closes: 38900)
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5256 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5257 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5261 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5280 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5283 help from Julian Gilbey.
5284 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5285 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5286 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5287 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5288 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5289 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5290 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5320 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5323 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5327 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5330 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5337 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5341 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5347 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5350 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5366 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5369 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5370 may be deleted. (#35845)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * Various man page enhancements.
5377 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5382 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5385 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5386 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5393 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5394 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5395 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5397 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5398 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5403 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * Another very minor typo fix.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * Very minor typo fix.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5424 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5425 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5429 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5438 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5439 variables properly (#34850).
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5449 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5452 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5453 (automatically generated by build process).
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5457 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5459 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5466 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5467 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5469 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5476 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5480 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * README: minor typo fix.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5486 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5489 leave it at that. :-)
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5499 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5505 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5508 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5509 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5510 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5514 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5517 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5521 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5524 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5531 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5532 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5533 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5534 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5541 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5542 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5543 Craig Small for spotting this.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5550 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5551 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5555 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5564 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5570 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5571 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5572 working on the last version of debhelper.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5579 being made. (#23255)
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5589 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5592 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5599 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5600 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5601 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5602 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5609 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5610 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5611 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5612 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5614 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5615 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5617 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5637 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5638 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5639 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5640 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5641 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5642 suidregister actually supports it.
5643 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5644 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5648 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5655 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5658 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5659 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5660 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5661 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5662 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5663 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5664 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5668 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5670 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5671 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5678 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5679 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5680 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5681 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5688 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5690 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5691 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5692 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5693 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5694 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5695 effect, either. (#30118)
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5699 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5705 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5708 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5709 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5713 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5719 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5722 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5723 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5724 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5725 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5729 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5732 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5733 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5737 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5743 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5746 packages, painlessly.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5756 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5762 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5768 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * The perl conversion is complete.
5772 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5774 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5775 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5776 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5781 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5784 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5785 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5786 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5790 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5793 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5795 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5797 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5798 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5805 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5806 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5816 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5819 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5820 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5821 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5822 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5823 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5827 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5830 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5831 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5832 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5833 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5837 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5840 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5844 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5847 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5848 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5849 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5850 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5851 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5852 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5853 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5854 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5858 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5864 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5867 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5868 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5869 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5874 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5877 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5881 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5884 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5888 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5891 sections of shared libraries.
5892 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5893 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5894 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5895 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5896 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5897 things you don't want them to.
5898 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5899 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5903 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5906 shared libraries. (#26414)
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5910 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5912 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5913 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5914 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5915 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5919 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5923 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5925 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5926 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5927 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5928 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5929 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5933 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5936 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5943 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5944 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5949 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5952 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5959 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5960 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5961 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5962 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5963 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5965 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5966 remove debian/files properly.
5967 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5968 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5969 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5970 * Removed bogus menu file.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5974 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5977 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5981 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5984 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5985 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5986 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5987 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5988 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5989 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5993 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5996 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5997 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5998 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5999 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6003 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6005 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6010 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6013 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6014 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6016 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6017 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6018 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6019 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6020 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6021 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6025 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6027 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6028 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6029 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6030 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6031 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6032 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6033 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6034 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6035 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6036 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6037 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6038 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6039 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6040 passed any switches.
6041 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6045 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6048 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6049 at all for a long while.
6050 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6051 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6052 large chunks in the process.
6053 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6054 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6055 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6060 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6063 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6065 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6070 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6073 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6074 that don't always have the same files in them.
6075 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6076 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6077 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6081 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6085 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6086 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6087 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6088 updating 27 man pages.
6089 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6090 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6091 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6092 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6093 programs act on. (#25247)
6095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6097 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6101 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6102 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6103 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6104 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6105 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6106 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6111 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6118 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6125 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6128 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6132 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6138 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6141 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6142 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6143 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6144 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6145 package by accident.
6146 * Is version 1.0 next?
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6150 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6153 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6154 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6158 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6161 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6162 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6163 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6164 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6165 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6167 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6172 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6175 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6176 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6180 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6183 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6187 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6189 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6190 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6191 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6196 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6202 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6205 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6206 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6217 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6220 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6221 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6222 past week. Thanks, guys!
6224 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6225 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6226 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6227 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6228 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6229 would do in the same situation.
6230 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6231 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6233 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6235 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6236 permissions changed.
6237 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6238 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6239 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6240 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6241 files are treated identically.
6242 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6243 * Minor man page fixes.
6244 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6245 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6246 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6250 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6253 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6254 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6255 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6256 use -X multiple times, too.
6257 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6258 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6262 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6265 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6266 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6270 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6273 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6277 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6280 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6281 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6282 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6283 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6284 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6285 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6286 shape if you're starting a new package.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6290 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6293 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6297 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6300 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6301 because of missing symlinks.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6305 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6311 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6314 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6315 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6316 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6317 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6318 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6320 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6321 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6325 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6327 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6328 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6329 to be changed after the fact :-)
6330 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6337 no version string after the -V.
6339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6341 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6343 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6344 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6349 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6352 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6356 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6359 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6360 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6361 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6362 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6363 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6364 I always welcome corrections!
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6368 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6374 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6377 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6378 * Documented this new switch.
6380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6382 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6384 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6385 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6386 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6387 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6388 no packages use the old behavior.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6392 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6395 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6396 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6400 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6403 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6407 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6409 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6413 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6415 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6416 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6420 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6423 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6424 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6425 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6435 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6438 into the source package by accident.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6442 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6445 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6446 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6447 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6448 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6449 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6450 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6455 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6459 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6460 inspired to implement some of it.
6461 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6465 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6468 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6472 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6475 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6476 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6480 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6483 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6484 have done.) (#17598)
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6488 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6500 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6503 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6510 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6511 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6515 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6518 argument processor in perl.
6519 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6520 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6521 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6522 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6526 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6528 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6529 type directories. (#16933)
6530 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6531 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6532 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6533 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6534 are supported. (#16935)
6535 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6543 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6551 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6552 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6553 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6554 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6555 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6556 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6560 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6563 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6564 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6566 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6567 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6568 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6569 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6570 a given package, or -i or -a.
6571 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6572 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6573 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6574 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6575 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6576 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6577 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6578 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6579 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6581 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6582 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6583 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6587 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6589 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6590 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6591 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6596 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6599 does not have a section.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6603 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6606 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6607 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6608 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6612 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Fixed typo #16215.
6616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6618 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6620 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6621 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6622 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6623 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6624 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6625 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6630 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6632 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6633 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6634 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6635 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6640 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6646 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6648 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6652 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6655 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6656 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6657 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6658 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6659 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6660 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6664 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6670 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6672 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6673 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6677 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6680 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6681 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6682 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6686 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6688 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6689 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6699 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6701 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6702 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6706 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6709 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6713 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6719 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6722 postinst, postrm, etc.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6726 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6728 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6732 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6734 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6735 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6736 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6737 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6738 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6739 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6743 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6746 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6747 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6751 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6753 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6754 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6758 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6760 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6761 installing package files into.
6762 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6767 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6771 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6775 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6777 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6781 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6783 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6784 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6788 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6790 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6791 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6792 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6793 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6794 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6798 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6800 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6801 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6802 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6803 multiple binary packages.
6804 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6805 should rebuild them with this version.
6806 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6810 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6812 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6813 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6817 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6819 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6820 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6824 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6826 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6827 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6828 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6829 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6830 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6831 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6832 debian/README.debian.
6833 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6834 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6835 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6836 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6837 in a few situations.)
6839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6841 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6843 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6847 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6849 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6853 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6855 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6856 * Fixed several man pages.
6858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6860 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6862 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6863 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6864 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6868 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6870 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6871 is ready for general use.
6872 * Added man pages for all commands.
6873 * Multiple binary package support.
6874 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6875 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6876 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6878 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6879 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6880 auto-installed as parameters.
6881 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6883 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6886 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6887 the package build directory it is to act on.
6888 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6889 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6890 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6894 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6896 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6897 ready to replace debstd.
6899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400