1 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
4 Use override targets instead.
5 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
6 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
7 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
8 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
9 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
10 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
11 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
12 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
13 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
14 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
19 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
22 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
26 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
32 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
35 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
36 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
37 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
38 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
39 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
40 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
44 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
47 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
48 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
49 the targets. Closes: #629139
51 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
52 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
53 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
54 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
55 are already set to other values will not be changed.
57 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
58 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
59 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
60 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
61 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
66 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
72 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
75 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
76 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
80 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
83 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
84 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
85 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
86 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
87 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
88 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
89 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
94 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
98 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
99 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
101 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
102 changes may be added to that mode.
103 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
104 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
105 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
106 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
107 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
108 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
109 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
110 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
111 * Removed old example rules files.
112 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
116 * update french translation.
117 * Fix french misspelling.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
121 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
124 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
128 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
131 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
132 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
133 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
134 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
135 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
136 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
137 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
141 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
144 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
145 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
146 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
147 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
148 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
149 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
151 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
152 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
153 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
154 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
155 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
156 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
157 (Thanks, David Prévot)
158 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
159 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
160 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
161 target fails. Closes: #601037
162 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
164 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
165 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
166 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
167 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
168 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
170 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
171 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
173 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
174 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
175 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
177 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
179 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
182 * update french translation.
183 * Fix french misspelling.
184 * French translation update after massive man page typography
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
188 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
194 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
198 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
200 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
204 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
206 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
207 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
208 introduced by the fix to #527990.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
212 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
215 changes are planned for that mode.
216 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
217 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
218 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
219 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
220 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
221 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
222 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
223 (genesis) still uses them.
224 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
225 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
226 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
227 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
228 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
229 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
230 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
231 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
232 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
233 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
234 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
235 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
236 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
237 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
238 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
239 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
240 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
241 commands. (See #570039)
242 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
244 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
249 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
253 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
254 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
255 in control file or debhelper config files.
256 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
260 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
263 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
264 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
268 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
271 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
275 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
278 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
279 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
283 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Updated French translation.
286 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
287 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
288 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
289 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
291 * Typo. Closes: #571968
292 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
293 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
294 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
295 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
296 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
297 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
298 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
299 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
300 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
302 * dh: Improve documentation.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
306 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
308 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
309 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
310 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
314 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
317 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
321 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
324 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
328 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
331 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
332 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
333 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
334 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
335 options that they do not support.
336 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
337 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
338 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
339 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
340 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
341 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
346 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
350 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
351 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
352 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
353 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
354 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
355 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
356 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
357 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
358 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
362 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
365 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
366 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
367 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
368 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
372 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Typo. Closes: #558654
375 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
376 installed. Closes: #558782
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
380 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
383 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
384 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
385 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
386 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
387 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
391 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
393 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
394 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
395 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
396 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
400 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
403 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
404 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
408 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
410 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
414 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
416 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
417 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
418 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
419 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
420 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
421 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
422 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
423 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
424 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
425 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
426 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
427 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
428 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
429 time soon.) Closes: #554509
430 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
432 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
433 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
434 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
435 document id. Closes: #555677
436 * Typo. Closes: #555659
437 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
438 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
439 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
440 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
442 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
443 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
444 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
449 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
452 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
453 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
454 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
455 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
456 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
457 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
458 translation (#494300 part 2)
461 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
463 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
464 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
465 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
466 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
467 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
471 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
474 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
475 (It was only run once due to logging.)
476 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
477 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
478 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
479 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
480 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
481 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
482 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
483 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
484 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
485 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
489 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
493 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
496 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
497 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
501 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
504 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
505 flag with arch all/any packages.
506 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
507 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
508 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
509 situation. Closes: #540794
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
513 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
517 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
518 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
519 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
520 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
521 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
524 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
525 the default. Closes: #538201
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
530 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
534 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
535 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
536 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
537 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
538 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
540 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
541 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
542 * Above Closes: #491117
543 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
548 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
554 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
555 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
556 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
560 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
563 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
564 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
565 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
566 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
567 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
572 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
575 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
576 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
580 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
582 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
586 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
588 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
589 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
591 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
592 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
593 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
597 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
599 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
600 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
604 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
610 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
612 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
613 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
614 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
619 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
621 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
625 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
628 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
629 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
630 created by using `python' first during build and install.
632 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
637 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
639 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
643 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
645 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
646 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
650 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
652 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
656 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
658 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
662 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
664 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
665 contributed by Modestas Vainius
666 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
667 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
668 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
669 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
670 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
671 that support it. Closes: #480577
672 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
673 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
674 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
676 - Adds support for cmake.
677 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
678 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
680 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
682 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
683 that use them. The options are:
684 --sourcedir, --destdir
685 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
686 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
687 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
688 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
689 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
693 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
699 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
702 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
703 default. Closes: #537140
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
707 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
710 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
711 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
715 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
718 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
722 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
725 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
729 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
732 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
734 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
735 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
736 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
740 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
743 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
744 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
745 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
749 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
752 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
753 warning or deprecation message.
754 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
755 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
756 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
757 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
758 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
759 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
760 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
761 Closes: #534639, #357434
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
765 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
771 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
774 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
775 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
776 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
777 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
779 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
780 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
781 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
785 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
791 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
798 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
801 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
805 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
809 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
810 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
812 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
813 file support. Closes: #494914
814 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
818 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
821 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
822 parameters. Closes: #527256
823 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
824 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
825 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
829 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
833 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
834 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
835 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
839 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
842 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
843 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
844 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
848 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
851 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
852 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
854 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
855 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
856 by triggers). Closes: #521181
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
860 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
864 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
868 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
871 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
872 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
873 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
874 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
879 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
885 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
888 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
889 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
890 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
891 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
892 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
894 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
895 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
896 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
897 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
898 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
899 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
903 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
906 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
907 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
908 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
909 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
910 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
912 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
916 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
918 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
922 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
924 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
925 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
926 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
927 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
928 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
929 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
930 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
931 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
932 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
933 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
934 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
938 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
940 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
941 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
943 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
944 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
945 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
946 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
948 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
949 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
953 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
955 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
956 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
957 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
958 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
959 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
960 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
961 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
963 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
964 that uses them. Affected options are:
965 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
966 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
967 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
968 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
969 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
970 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
971 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
972 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
973 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
974 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
975 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
976 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
980 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
987 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
993 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
995 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
996 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
998 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
999 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1000 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1001 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1002 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1003 than the old method.
1004 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1006 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1007 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1008 rules (see bug #509756).
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1012 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1018 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1019 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1020 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1021 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1025 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1028 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1029 empty files. Closes: #490937
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1033 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1039 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1046 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1049 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1050 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1051 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1052 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1057 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1059 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1060 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1061 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1062 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1066 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1069 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1070 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1071 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1072 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1073 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1077 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1084 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1087 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1088 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1089 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1090 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1091 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1092 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1093 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1094 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1095 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1099 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1102 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1103 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1104 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1105 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1107 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1108 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1109 breaking backwards compatibility.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1113 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1116 message in perl 5.10.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1120 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1126 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1129 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1133 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1136 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1140 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1143 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1144 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1145 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1146 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1147 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1148 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1149 logging by dh_listpackages.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1153 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1156 run and there are no packages of that type.
1157 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1158 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1159 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1160 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1162 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1163 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1167 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1170 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1171 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1175 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1178 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1179 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1181 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1182 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1183 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1184 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1185 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1186 planned but not yet implemented.)
1187 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1188 if the Makefile has such a target.
1189 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1190 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1191 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1192 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1193 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1194 but not yet implemented.)
1195 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1196 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1197 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1198 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1199 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1201 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1203 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1204 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1206 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1207 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1208 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1213 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1216 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1217 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1221 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1223 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1224 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1225 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1229 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1235 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1241 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1244 just those installed by the program.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1248 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1251 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1252 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1256 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1259 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1260 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1261 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1262 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1266 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1269 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1270 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1274 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1277 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1278 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1282 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1285 with policy. Closes: #461392
1286 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1287 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1288 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1289 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1290 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1294 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1297 Closes: #460340, #460351
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1301 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1304 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1305 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1306 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1307 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1311 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1314 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1315 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1316 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1317 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1318 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1319 package build directory won't work.
1320 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1321 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1322 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1323 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1324 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1325 mode. Closes: #459426
1326 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1334 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1338 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1342 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1343 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1344 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1345 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1346 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1347 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1351 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1354 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1355 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1356 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1357 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1361 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1364 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1365 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1366 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1367 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1368 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1372 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1375 debian/package.triggers files.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1379 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1382 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1386 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1389 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1390 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1391 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1392 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1397 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1400 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1404 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1407 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1408 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1410 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1415 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1419 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1420 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1421 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1425 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1439 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1442 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1444 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1445 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1446 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1448 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1449 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1450 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1454 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1457 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1458 * Update urls to web page.
1459 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1460 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1461 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1462 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1469 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1470 - typo in alternatives call
1471 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1473 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1474 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1478 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1481 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1486 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1492 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1498 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1501 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1503 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1504 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1505 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1506 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1507 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1508 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1509 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1510 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1511 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1512 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1513 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1517 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1520 package install. Closes: #415717
1521 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1522 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1523 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1524 script and then remove the python files.
1525 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1526 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1527 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1528 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1529 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1530 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1531 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1532 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1533 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1534 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1535 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1536 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1537 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1541 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Correct typo in french translation
1547 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1548 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1550 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1552 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1553 Closes: #406921, #381940
1554 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1556 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1557 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1558 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1559 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1560 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1561 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1562 specified). Closes: #381851
1563 * Misc minor changes.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1567 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1574 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1575 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1585 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1586 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1589 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1590 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1592 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1593 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1594 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1595 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1599 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1602 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1605 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1609 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1615 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1621 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1622 a difficult situation.
1623 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1624 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1625 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1626 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1627 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1628 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1629 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1630 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1631 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1632 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1636 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Non-maintainer upload.
1639 * Update of dh_python
1640 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1641 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1643 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1644 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1645 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1646 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1647 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1649 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1651 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Non-maintainer upload.
1654 * Update of dh_python
1655 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1656 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1657 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1658 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1659 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1660 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1661 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1662 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1663 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1664 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1666 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1667 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1668 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1669 the not too-distant future).
1670 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1671 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1672 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1673 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1674 thus made the build fail.
1676 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1678 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Non-maintainer upload.
1681 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1683 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1685 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1688 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1689 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1690 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1691 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1692 package. Closes: #301424
1693 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1694 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1695 fonts). Closes: #372686
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1699 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1705 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1706 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1707 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1708 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1709 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1710 above, but already depends on that.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1714 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1717 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1718 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1719 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1720 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1721 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1725 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1731 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1737 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1738 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1742 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1745 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1749 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1753 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1754 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1755 new version (0.24.1).
1756 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1757 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1760 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1761 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1762 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1763 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1764 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1765 new directory on their own.
1766 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1767 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1771 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1774 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1775 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1776 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1777 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1781 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1784 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1785 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1786 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1787 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1788 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1792 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1798 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1802 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1803 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1807 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1808 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1814 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1815 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1817 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1818 ignored. Closes: #337664
1820 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1831 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1836 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1837 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1838 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1839 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1840 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1841 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1842 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1846 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1849 version. Closes: #350607
1850 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1851 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1852 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1853 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1857 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1860 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1861 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1862 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1866 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1873 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1879 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1882 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1886 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1889 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1890 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1891 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1892 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1893 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1894 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1898 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1901 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1902 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1907 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1910 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1914 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1917 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1921 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1924 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1925 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1926 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1927 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1928 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1929 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1933 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1937 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1938 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1939 link. Closes: #346405
1940 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1942 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1943 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1944 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1945 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1946 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1947 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1948 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1952 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1959 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1965 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1968 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1972 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1975 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1980 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1984 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1985 installed. Closes: #342033
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1989 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1992 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1993 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1994 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1999 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2005 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2011 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2015 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2016 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2017 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2021 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2024 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2029 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2036 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2042 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2045 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2046 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2047 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2048 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2049 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2050 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2051 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2053 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2060 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2061 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2068 in standard man dirs.
2069 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2082 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2101 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2104 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2105 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2112 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2113 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2114 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2116 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2118 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2133 mode. Closes: #324161
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2140 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2141 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2142 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2143 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2151 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2152 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2153 is necesary for sanity.
2154 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2155 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2162 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2163 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2170 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2183 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2184 released, so use at your own risk.
2185 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2186 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2188 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2189 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2190 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2191 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2192 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2193 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2194 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2195 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2196 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2197 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2198 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2199 including twice per config file line now..
2200 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2201 and simplfy the rules file.
2202 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2203 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2204 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2206 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2207 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2214 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2221 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2228 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2235 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2236 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2237 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2238 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2239 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2240 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2247 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2248 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2249 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2257 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2258 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2266 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2267 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2268 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2276 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2277 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2278 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2295 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2298 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2299 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2300 unknown. Closes: #282924
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2304 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Spanish man page updates.
2314 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2328 * dh_desktop: reindent
2329 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2330 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2342 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2348 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2352 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2355 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2356 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2360 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2382 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2386 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2389 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2390 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2391 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2392 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2393 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2394 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2396 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2397 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2398 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2399 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2400 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2401 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2402 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2403 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2404 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2405 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2406 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2407 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2408 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2409 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2410 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2411 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2425 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2429 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2432 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2439 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2446 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2462 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2471 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2472 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2473 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2480 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2487 but occasionally right and necessary.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2491 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2494 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2495 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2496 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2497 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2498 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2505 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2507 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2508 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2509 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2510 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2511 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2512 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2513 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2514 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2515 postinst scripts for udebs.
2516 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2523 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2525 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2526 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2536 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2543 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2550 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2553 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2560 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2567 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2570 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2571 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2575 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2581 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2584 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2588 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2591 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2592 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2593 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2595 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2597 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2598 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2599 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2603 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2606 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2611 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2614 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2615 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2616 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2621 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2627 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2636 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2637 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2638 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2639 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2640 associated -dbg packages.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2647 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2651 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2654 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2658 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2661 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2668 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2676 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2683 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2691 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2699 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2700 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2701 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2702 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2703 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2704 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2705 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2706 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2707 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2708 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2712 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2715 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2720 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2723 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2724 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2731 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2732 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2740 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2747 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2751 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2754 out section number. Closes: #204731
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2771 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2780 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2781 removal. Closes: #204286
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2788 renaming. Closes: #203548
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2792 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2795 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2796 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2800 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2812 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2818 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2821 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2822 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2823 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2830 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2831 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2835 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2851 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2859 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2866 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2868 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2869 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2876 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2884 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2888 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2896 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2903 it break hard links (see #188663).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2910 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2920 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2924 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2925 debconf-mergetemplates
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2929 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2932 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2936 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2939 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2943 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2946 * Update debhelper(1).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2950 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2953 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2954 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2955 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2956 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2957 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2961 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2964 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2965 the shell. Closes: #178524
2966 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2970 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2973 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2977 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2980 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2984 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2987 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2988 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2989 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2990 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2995 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2998 files from installation.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3002 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3005 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3006 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3010 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3013 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3017 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3020 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3024 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3030 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3036 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3040 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3041 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3043 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3047 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3050 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3051 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3052 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3053 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3057 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3060 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3064 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3067 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3068 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3072 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3076 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3091 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3092 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3093 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3101 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3102 practice. Closes: #163303
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3119 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3122 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3124 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3125 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3126 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3127 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3128 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3135 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3146 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3153 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3156 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3161 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3167 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3186 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3189 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3190 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3191 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3192 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3197 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3203 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3210 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3213 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3214 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3218 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3221 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3222 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3223 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3224 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3225 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3229 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3232 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3234 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3239 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3242 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3246 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3249 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3250 right thing. Closes: #150644
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3254 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Stupid, evil typo.
3257 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3261 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3268 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3271 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3272 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3277 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3283 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3286 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3290 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3293 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3294 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3299 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3302 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3306 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3312 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3315 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3316 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3320 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3326 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Removing perl warning message.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3332 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3335 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3336 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3337 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3338 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3339 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3340 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3341 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3342 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3346 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3352 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3359 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3362 debconf-mergetemplate.
3363 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3364 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3371 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3372 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3373 dh_install, which ...
3374 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3375 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3376 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3377 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3378 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3379 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3380 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3381 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3382 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3383 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3384 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3385 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3386 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3387 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3388 other minor changes.
3389 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3390 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3391 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3392 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3393 course there's -X ..)
3394 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3395 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3396 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3398 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3399 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3400 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3401 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3402 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3407 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3413 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3416 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3420 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3426 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3432 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3438 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3444 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3447 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3448 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3449 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3450 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3452 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3453 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3457 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3463 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3466 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3470 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3473 upset. Closes: #131322
3475 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3477 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3480 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3481 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3482 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3483 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3484 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3485 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3486 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3487 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3488 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3489 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3490 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3491 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3492 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3493 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3494 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3496 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3500 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3503 - Better indenting of generated code.
3504 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3508 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3512 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3513 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3514 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3515 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3516 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3517 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3518 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3522 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3525 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3529 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3532 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3533 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3534 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3535 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3536 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3537 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3538 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3539 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3540 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3541 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3542 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3543 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3544 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3545 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3546 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3551 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3557 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3560 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3561 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3565 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3568 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3569 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3573 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3579 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3582 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3583 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3584 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3585 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3586 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3591 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3597 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3600 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3604 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3607 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3618 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3621 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3625 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3631 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3635 Also some indentation fixes.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3639 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3642 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3643 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3644 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3645 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3646 Closes: #106514, #85520
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3650 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3656 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3662 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3668 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3674 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3680 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3683 change it in debhelper v4..
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3687 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3693 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3696 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3700 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3703 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3707 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3713 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3716 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3717 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3718 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3719 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3720 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3721 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3722 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3723 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3724 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3725 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3726 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3727 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3731 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3734 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3738 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3745 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3748 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3749 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3750 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3751 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3752 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3753 program those options go to. So, for example,
3754 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3755 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3756 something complex. Closes: #89311
3757 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3761 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3764 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3765 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3766 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3770 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3773 through loop. Closes: #98598
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3777 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Missing semi-colon.
3780 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3781 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3785 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3788 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3789 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3790 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3794 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3797 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3798 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3802 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3805 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3809 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3812 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3813 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3817 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3820 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3821 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3822 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3826 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3829 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3830 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3831 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3835 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3838 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3842 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3848 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3854 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3860 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3866 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3869 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3873 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3876 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3877 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3878 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3879 followed. Closes: #85483
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3883 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3885 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3886 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3887 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3891 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3894 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3895 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3896 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3897 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3898 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3899 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3900 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3901 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3902 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3903 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3904 Closes: #88464, #77743
3905 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3906 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3907 us to deal with that gracefully.
3908 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3910 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3911 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3912 a while, Closes: #51225
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3916 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3922 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3925 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3929 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3933 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3938 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3941 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3942 don't make packlist files.
3943 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3944 debhelper coding standards.
3945 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3946 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3950 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3953 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3957 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3960 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3961 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3962 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3963 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3964 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3965 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3966 but is mildly deprecated.
3967 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3968 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3969 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3970 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3971 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3972 switching to statoverrides..
3973 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3974 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3975 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3976 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3977 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3978 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3980 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3981 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3982 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3983 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3984 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3985 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3986 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3987 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3988 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3990 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3991 variable names, pod man pages).
3992 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3993 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3994 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3995 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3996 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3997 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3998 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4018 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4024 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4025 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4026 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4032 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4033 they were previously ignored.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4039 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4040 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4046 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4047 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4048 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4052 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4054 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4058 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4060 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4061 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4067 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4068 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4069 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4070 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4071 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4072 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4073 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4074 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4075 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4076 it is an obsolete program.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4082 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4090 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4096 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4098 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4100 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4102 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4112 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * typo: Closes, #78567
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4118 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4124 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4130 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4133 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4134 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4135 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4136 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4137 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4141 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4144 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4152 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4153 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4154 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4155 backwards-compatibility.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4162 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4163 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4164 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4165 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4166 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4167 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4169 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4170 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4171 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4173 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4175 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4176 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4177 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4178 should now be raised to severity important..
4179 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4180 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4184 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4187 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4198 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4210 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4217 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4220 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4221 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4222 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4223 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4227 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4233 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4236 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4237 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4238 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4239 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4240 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4241 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4246 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4249 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4253 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4259 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4262 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4270 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4271 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4272 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4273 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4281 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4284 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4287 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4288 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4291 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4293 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4294 the TODO entry about it.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4308 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4309 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4313 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4316 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4317 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4318 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4319 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4339 (this appears to be logal).
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4346 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4347 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4348 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4349 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4362 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4363 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4364 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4365 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4375 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4378 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4392 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4393 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4394 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4415 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4416 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4417 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4418 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4419 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4420 notice until v2 is complete.
4421 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4422 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4423 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4424 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4425 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4426 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4428 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4429 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4430 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4431 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4441 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4451 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4465 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4466 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4467 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4468 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4476 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4477 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4478 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4486 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4487 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4491 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4494 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4501 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4505 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4515 depend on the build and install targets.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4522 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4539 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4545 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4548 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4549 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4550 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4551 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4552 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4553 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4555 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4556 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4557 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4558 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4559 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4560 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4561 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4565 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4571 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4577 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4580 right place. Closes: #55065
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4584 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4591 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4594 * Copyright date updates.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4598 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4601 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4606 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4612 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4619 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4625 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4631 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4637 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4640 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4641 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4642 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4643 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4644 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4645 bits until all files have been registered.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4649 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installmanpages:
4652 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4653 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4654 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4655 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4656 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4657 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4658 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4659 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4660 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4661 otherwise change the result at all.
4663 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4664 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4665 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4666 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4667 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4672 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4678 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4681 act on files that don't exist.
4682 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4683 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4684 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4686 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4687 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4688 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4689 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4693 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4699 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4705 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4708 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4712 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4715 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4717 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4718 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4719 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4723 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4726 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4727 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4728 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4729 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4730 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4731 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4732 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4734 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4736 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4740 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4747 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4759 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4762 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4772 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4781 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4782 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4783 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4784 I made some changes, though:
4785 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4786 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4787 that is a clear violation of policy.
4788 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4789 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4790 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4791 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4792 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4793 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4794 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4795 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4796 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4798 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4811 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4815 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4818 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4819 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4824 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4840 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4841 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4842 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4843 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4844 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4845 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4846 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4850 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4856 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4860 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4861 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4865 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4874 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4881 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4882 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4888 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4897 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4904 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4905 for the dependancies to be generated.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4912 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4916 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4919 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4920 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4921 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4926 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4929 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4930 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4949 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4953 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4962 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4963 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4964 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4965 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4966 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4967 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4968 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4969 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4970 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4971 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4972 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4973 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4980 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4981 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4983 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4984 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4985 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4986 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4987 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4988 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4990 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4991 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4998 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5002 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5009 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5012 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5020 for building debhelper.
5021 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5035 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5039 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5042 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5043 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5044 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5045 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5046 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5047 it's always available.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5051 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5054 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5055 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5056 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5060 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5063 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5064 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5068 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5074 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5077 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5081 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5087 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5090 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5091 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5092 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5096 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5099 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5104 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5107 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5108 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5110 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5111 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5115 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5121 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5127 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5130 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5137 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5138 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5140 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5144 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5147 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5148 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5149 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5153 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5156 things if CDPATH is set.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5160 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5166 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5169 seems to make sense for the transition.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5173 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5176 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5181 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5184 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5185 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5189 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5192 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5196 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5199 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5200 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5201 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5202 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5206 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5212 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5215 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5216 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5217 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5218 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5219 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5220 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5221 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5222 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5223 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5224 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5229 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5232 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5233 * README: mention doc/v2
5234 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5235 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5241 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5242 be using this script RSN.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5249 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5250 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5251 more than 1 init script.
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5258 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * Changed perl version detection.
5265 * Changed call to find.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5272 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5274 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * Really include dh_installpam.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5288 * Wrote man page for same.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5295 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5296 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5311 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5312 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5313 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5314 x bit was being set!
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5321 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5322 well. (Closes: 38900)
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5329 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5330 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5334 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5340 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5347 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5353 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5356 help from Julian Gilbey.
5357 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5358 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5359 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5360 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5361 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5362 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5363 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5393 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5396 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5400 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5403 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5407 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5410 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5423 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5427 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5433 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5439 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5442 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5443 may be deleted. (#35845)
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Various man page enhancements.
5450 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5458 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5459 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5463 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5466 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5467 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5468 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5470 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5471 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5482 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * Another very minor typo fix.
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * Very minor typo fix.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5497 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5498 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5508 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5511 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5512 variables properly (#34850).
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5525 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5526 (automatically generated by build process).
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5532 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5536 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5539 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5540 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5542 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5549 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * README: minor typo fix.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5559 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5562 leave it at that. :-)
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5566 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5581 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5582 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5583 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5590 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5594 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5597 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5604 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5605 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5606 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5607 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5614 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5615 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5616 Craig Small for spotting this.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5620 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5623 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5624 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5634 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5637 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5643 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5644 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5645 working on the last version of debhelper.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5652 being made. (#23255)
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5665 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5672 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5673 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5674 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5675 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5679 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5682 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5683 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5684 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5685 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5687 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5688 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5690 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5695 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5697 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5701 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5710 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5711 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5712 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5713 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5714 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5715 suidregister actually supports it.
5716 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5717 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5721 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5728 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5731 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5732 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5733 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5734 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5735 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5736 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5737 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5741 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5743 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5744 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5748 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5751 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5752 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5753 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5754 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5758 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5761 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5763 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5764 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5765 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5766 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5767 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5768 effect, either. (#30118)
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5772 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5778 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5781 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5782 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5786 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5792 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5795 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5796 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5797 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5798 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5802 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5805 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5806 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5810 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5816 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5819 packages, painlessly.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5823 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5829 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5835 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5841 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * The perl conversion is complete.
5845 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5847 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5848 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5849 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5854 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5857 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5858 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5859 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5863 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5866 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5868 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5870 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5871 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5875 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5878 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5879 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5883 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5889 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5892 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5893 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5894 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5895 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5896 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5900 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5903 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5904 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5905 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5906 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5910 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5913 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5917 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5920 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5921 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5922 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5923 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5924 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5925 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5926 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5927 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5931 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5937 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5940 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5941 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5942 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5947 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5950 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5954 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5957 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5961 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5964 sections of shared libraries.
5965 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5966 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5967 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5968 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5969 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5970 things you don't want them to.
5971 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5972 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5976 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5979 shared libraries. (#26414)
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5983 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5985 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5986 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5987 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5988 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5992 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5996 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5998 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5999 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6000 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6001 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6002 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6006 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6009 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6013 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6016 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6017 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6022 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6025 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6029 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6032 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6033 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6034 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6035 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6036 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6038 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6039 remove debian/files properly.
6040 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6041 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6042 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6043 * Removed bogus menu file.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6047 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6050 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6054 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6056 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6057 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6058 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6059 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6060 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6061 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6062 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6066 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6069 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6070 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6071 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6072 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6076 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6083 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6085 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6086 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6087 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6089 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6090 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6091 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6092 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6093 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6094 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6098 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6101 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6102 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6103 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6104 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6105 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6106 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6107 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6108 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6109 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6110 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6111 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6112 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6113 passed any switches.
6114 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6118 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6121 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6122 at all for a long while.
6123 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6124 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6125 large chunks in the process.
6126 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6127 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6128 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6133 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6136 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6138 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6143 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6146 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6147 that don't always have the same files in them.
6148 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6149 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6150 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6154 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6158 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6159 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6160 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6161 updating 27 man pages.
6162 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6163 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6164 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6165 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6166 programs act on. (#25247)
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6170 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6174 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6175 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6176 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6177 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6178 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6179 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6184 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6191 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6198 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6201 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6205 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6211 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6214 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6215 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6216 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6217 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6218 package by accident.
6219 * Is version 1.0 next?
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6223 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6226 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6227 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6231 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6234 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6235 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6236 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6237 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6238 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6240 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6245 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6248 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6249 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6253 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6256 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6260 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6263 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6264 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6269 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6275 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6278 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6279 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6284 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6290 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6293 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6294 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6295 past week. Thanks, guys!
6297 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6298 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6299 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6300 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6301 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6302 would do in the same situation.
6303 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6304 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6306 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6308 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6309 permissions changed.
6310 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6311 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6312 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6313 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6314 files are treated identically.
6315 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6316 * Minor man page fixes.
6317 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6318 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6319 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6323 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6326 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6327 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6328 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6329 use -X multiple times, too.
6330 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6331 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6335 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6338 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6339 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6343 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6346 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6350 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6353 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6354 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6355 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6356 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6357 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6358 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6359 shape if you're starting a new package.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6363 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6366 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6370 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6373 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6374 because of missing symlinks.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6378 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6384 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6387 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6388 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6389 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6390 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6391 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6393 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6394 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6398 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6400 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6401 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6402 to be changed after the fact :-)
6403 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6407 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6409 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6410 no version string after the -V.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6414 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6416 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6417 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6422 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6425 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6429 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6432 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6433 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6434 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6435 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6436 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6437 I always welcome corrections!
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6441 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6447 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6450 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6451 * Documented this new switch.
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6455 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6458 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6459 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6460 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6461 no packages use the old behavior.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6465 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6468 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6469 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6473 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6476 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6480 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6482 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6486 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6488 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6489 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6493 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6495 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6496 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6497 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6498 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6502 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6508 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6510 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6511 into the source package by accident.
6513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6515 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6517 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6518 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6519 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6520 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6521 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6522 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6523 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6528 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6532 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6533 inspired to implement some of it.
6534 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6538 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6541 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6545 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6548 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6549 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6553 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6556 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6557 have done.) (#17598)
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6561 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6573 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6576 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6583 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6584 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6588 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6590 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6591 argument processor in perl.
6592 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6593 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6594 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6595 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6599 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6602 type directories. (#16933)
6603 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6604 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6605 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6606 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6607 are supported. (#16935)
6608 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6613 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6616 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6620 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6624 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6625 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6626 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6627 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6628 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6629 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6633 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6635 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6636 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6637 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6639 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6640 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6641 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6642 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6643 a given package, or -i or -a.
6644 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6645 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6646 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6647 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6648 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6649 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6650 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6651 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6652 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6654 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6655 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6656 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6660 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6662 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6663 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6664 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6672 does not have a section.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6676 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6679 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6680 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6681 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6685 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * Fixed typo #16215.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6691 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6693 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6694 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6695 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6696 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6697 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6698 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6703 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6705 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6706 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6707 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6708 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6713 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6715 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6719 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6725 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6727 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6728 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6729 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6730 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6731 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6732 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6733 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6737 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6739 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6743 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6746 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6750 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6753 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6754 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6755 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6762 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6766 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6768 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6775 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6779 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6782 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6786 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6792 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6794 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6795 postinst, postrm, etc.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6805 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6807 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6808 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6809 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6810 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6811 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6812 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6816 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6818 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6819 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6820 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6824 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6826 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6827 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6831 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6833 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6834 installing package files into.
6835 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6840 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6842 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6844 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6848 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6850 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6854 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6856 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6857 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6861 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6863 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6864 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6865 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6866 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6867 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6871 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6873 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6874 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6875 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6876 multiple binary packages.
6877 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6878 should rebuild them with this version.
6879 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6883 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6885 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6886 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6890 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6892 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6893 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6897 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6899 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6900 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6901 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6902 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6903 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6904 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6905 debian/README.debian.
6906 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6907 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6908 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6909 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6910 in a few situations.)
6912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6914 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6916 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6920 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6922 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6926 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6928 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6929 * Fixed several man pages.
6931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6933 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6935 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6936 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6937 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6941 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6943 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6944 is ready for general use.
6945 * Added man pages for all commands.
6946 * Multiple binary package support.
6947 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6948 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6949 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6951 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6952 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6953 auto-installed as parameters.
6954 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6956 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6959 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6960 the package build directory it is to act on.
6961 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6962 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6963 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6967 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6969 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6970 ready to replace debstd.
6972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400