1 debhelper (8.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
5 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
6 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
7 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
8 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
9 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
11 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
12 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
13 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
14 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
15 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
16 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
17 (Thanks, David Prévot)
18 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
19 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
20 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
21 target fails. Closes: #601037
22 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
24 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
25 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
26 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
28 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
30 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
31 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
35 * update french translation.
36 * Fix french misspelling.
37 * French translation update after massive man page typography
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
41 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
47 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
51 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
53 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
57 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
59 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
60 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
61 introduced by the fix to #527990.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
65 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
68 changes are planned for that mode.
69 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
70 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
71 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
72 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
73 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
74 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
75 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
76 (genesis) still uses them.
77 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
78 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
79 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
80 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
81 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
82 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
83 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
84 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
85 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
86 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
87 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
88 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
89 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
90 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
91 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
92 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
93 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
94 commands. (See #570039)
95 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
97 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
102 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
106 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
107 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
108 in control file or debhelper config files.
109 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
113 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
116 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
117 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
121 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
124 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
128 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
131 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
132 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
136 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Updated French translation.
139 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
140 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
141 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
142 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
144 * Typo. Closes: #571968
145 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
146 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
147 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
148 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
149 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
150 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
151 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
152 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
153 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
155 * dh: Improve documentation.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
159 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
161 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
162 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
163 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
167 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
170 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
174 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
177 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
181 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
184 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
185 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
186 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
187 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
188 options that they do not support.
189 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
190 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
191 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
192 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
193 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
194 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
199 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
203 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
204 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
205 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
206 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
207 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
208 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
209 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
210 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
211 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
215 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
218 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
219 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
220 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
221 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
225 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Typo. Closes: #558654
228 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
229 installed. Closes: #558782
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
233 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
236 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
237 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
238 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
239 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
240 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
244 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
246 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
247 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
248 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
249 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
253 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
256 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
257 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
261 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
263 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
267 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
269 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
270 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
271 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
272 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
273 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
274 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
275 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
276 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
277 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
278 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
279 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
280 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
281 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
282 time soon.) Closes: #554509
283 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
285 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
286 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
287 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
288 document id. Closes: #555677
289 * Typo. Closes: #555659
290 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
291 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
292 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
293 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
295 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
296 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
297 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
302 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
305 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
306 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
307 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
308 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
309 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
310 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
311 translation (#494300 part 2)
314 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
316 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
317 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
318 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
319 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
320 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
324 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
327 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
328 (It was only run once due to logging.)
329 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
330 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
331 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
332 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
333 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
334 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
335 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
336 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
337 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
338 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
342 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
346 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
349 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
350 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
354 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
357 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
358 flag with arch all/any packages.
359 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
360 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
361 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
362 situation. Closes: #540794
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
366 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
370 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
371 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
372 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
373 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
374 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
377 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
378 the default. Closes: #538201
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
383 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
387 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
388 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
389 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
390 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
391 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
393 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
394 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
395 * Above Closes: #491117
396 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
401 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
407 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
408 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
409 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
413 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
416 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
417 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
418 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
419 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
420 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
425 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
428 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
429 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
433 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
435 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
439 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
441 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
442 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
444 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
445 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
446 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
450 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
452 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
453 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
457 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
463 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
465 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
466 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
467 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
472 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
474 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
478 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
481 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
482 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
483 created by using `python' first during build and install.
485 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
490 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
492 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
496 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
498 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
499 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
503 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
505 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
509 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
511 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
515 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
517 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
518 contributed by Modestas Vainius
519 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
520 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
521 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
522 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
523 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
524 that support it. Closes: #480577
525 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
526 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
527 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
529 - Adds support for cmake.
530 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
531 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
533 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
535 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
536 that use them. The options are:
537 --sourcedir, --destdir
538 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
539 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
540 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
541 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
542 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
552 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
555 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
556 default. Closes: #537140
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
560 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
563 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
564 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
568 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
571 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
575 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
578 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
582 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
585 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
587 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
588 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
589 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
596 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
597 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
598 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
602 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
605 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
606 warning or deprecation message.
607 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
608 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
609 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
610 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
611 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
612 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
613 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
614 Closes: #534639, #357434
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
618 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
624 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
627 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
628 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
629 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
630 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
632 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
633 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
634 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
638 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
644 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
651 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
654 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
658 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
662 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
663 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
665 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
666 file support. Closes: #494914
667 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
674 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
675 parameters. Closes: #527256
676 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
677 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
678 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
682 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
686 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
687 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
688 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
692 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
695 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
696 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
697 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
701 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
704 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
705 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
707 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
708 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
709 by triggers). Closes: #521181
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
713 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
717 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
721 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
724 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
725 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
726 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
727 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
732 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
738 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
741 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
742 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
743 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
744 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
745 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
747 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
748 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
749 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
750 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
751 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
752 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
756 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
759 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
760 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
761 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
762 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
763 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
765 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
769 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
771 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
775 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
777 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
778 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
779 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
780 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
781 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
782 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
783 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
784 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
785 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
786 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
787 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
791 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
793 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
794 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
796 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
797 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
798 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
799 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
801 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
802 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
806 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
808 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
809 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
810 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
811 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
812 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
813 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
814 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
816 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
817 that uses them. Affected options are:
818 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
819 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
820 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
821 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
822 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
823 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
824 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
825 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
826 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
827 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
828 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
829 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
833 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
840 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
846 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
848 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
849 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
851 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
852 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
853 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
854 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
855 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
857 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
859 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
860 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
861 rules (see bug #509756).
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
865 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
871 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
872 * Typo. Closes: #493062
873 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
874 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
878 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
881 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
882 empty files. Closes: #490937
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
886 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
892 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
902 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
903 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
904 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
905 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
910 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
912 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
913 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
914 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
915 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
919 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
922 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
923 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
924 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
925 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
926 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
930 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
937 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
939 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
940 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
941 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
942 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
943 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
944 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
945 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
946 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
947 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
948 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
952 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
955 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
956 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
957 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
958 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
960 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
961 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
962 breaking backwards compatibility.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
966 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
969 message in perl 5.10.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
973 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
979 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Convert copyright file to new format.
982 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
986 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
989 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
993 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
996 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
997 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
998 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
999 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1000 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1001 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1002 logging by dh_listpackages.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1006 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1009 run and there are no packages of that type.
1010 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1011 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1012 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1013 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1015 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1016 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1020 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1023 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1024 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1028 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1031 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1032 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1034 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1035 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1036 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1037 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1038 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1039 planned but not yet implemented.)
1040 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1041 if the Makefile has such a target.
1042 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1043 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1044 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1045 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1046 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1047 but not yet implemented.)
1048 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1049 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1050 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1051 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1052 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1054 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1056 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1057 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1059 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1060 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1061 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1066 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1069 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1070 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1074 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1076 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1077 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1078 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1082 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1088 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1094 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1097 just those installed by the program.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1101 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1104 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1105 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1109 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1112 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1113 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1114 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1115 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1119 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1122 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1123 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1127 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1130 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1131 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1135 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1138 with policy. Closes: #461392
1139 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1140 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1141 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1142 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1143 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1147 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1150 Closes: #460340, #460351
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1154 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1157 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1158 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1159 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1160 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1164 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1167 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1168 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1170 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1171 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1172 package build directory won't work.
1173 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1174 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1175 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1176 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1177 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1178 mode. Closes: #459426
1179 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1184 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1187 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1191 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1195 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1196 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1197 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1198 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1199 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1200 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1204 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1207 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1208 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1209 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1210 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1214 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1217 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1218 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1219 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1220 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1221 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1228 debian/package.triggers files.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1235 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1239 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1242 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1243 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1244 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1245 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1250 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1253 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1260 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1261 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1263 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1272 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1273 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1274 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1278 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1285 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1295 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1297 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1298 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1299 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1301 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1302 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1303 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1307 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1310 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1311 * Update urls to web page.
1312 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1313 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1314 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1315 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1319 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1322 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1323 - typo in alternatives call
1324 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1326 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1327 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1331 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1334 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1339 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1345 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1351 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1354 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1356 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1357 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1358 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1359 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1360 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1361 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1362 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1363 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1364 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1365 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1366 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1370 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1373 package install. Closes: #415717
1374 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1375 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1376 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1377 script and then remove the python files.
1378 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1379 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1380 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1381 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1382 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1383 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1384 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1385 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1386 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1387 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1388 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1389 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1390 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1394 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Correct typo in french translation
1400 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1401 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1403 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1405 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1406 Closes: #406921, #381940
1407 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1409 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1410 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1411 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1412 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1413 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1414 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1415 specified). Closes: #381851
1416 * Misc minor changes.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1420 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1427 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1428 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1432 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1438 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1439 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1442 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1443 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1445 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1446 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1447 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1448 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1452 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1455 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1458 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1462 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1468 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1474 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1475 a difficult situation.
1476 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1477 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1478 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1479 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1480 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1481 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1482 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1483 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1484 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1485 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Non-maintainer upload.
1492 * Update of dh_python
1493 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1494 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1496 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1497 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1498 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1499 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1500 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1502 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1504 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Non-maintainer upload.
1507 * Update of dh_python
1508 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1509 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1510 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1511 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1512 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1513 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1514 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1515 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1516 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1517 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1519 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1520 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1521 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1522 the not too-distant future).
1523 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1524 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1525 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1526 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1527 thus made the build fail.
1529 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1531 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Non-maintainer upload.
1534 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1536 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1538 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1541 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1542 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1543 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1544 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1545 package. Closes: #301424
1546 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1547 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1548 fonts). Closes: #372686
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1552 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1558 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1559 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1560 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1561 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1562 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1563 above, but already depends on that.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1567 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1570 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1571 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1572 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1573 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1574 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1578 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1584 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1590 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1591 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1595 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1598 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1602 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1606 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1607 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1608 new version (0.24.1).
1609 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1610 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1613 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1614 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1615 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1616 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1617 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1618 new directory on their own.
1619 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1620 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1624 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1627 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1628 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1629 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1630 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1634 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1637 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1638 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1639 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1640 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1641 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1645 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1651 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1655 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1656 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1660 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1661 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1665 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1667 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1668 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1670 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1671 ignored. Closes: #337664
1673 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1678 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1689 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1690 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1691 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1692 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1693 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1694 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1695 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1699 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1702 version. Closes: #350607
1703 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1704 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1705 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1706 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1710 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1713 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1714 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1715 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1719 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1726 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1732 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1735 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1739 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1742 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1743 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1744 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1745 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1746 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1747 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1754 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1755 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1763 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1767 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1770 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1774 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1777 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1778 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1779 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1780 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1781 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1782 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1786 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1790 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1791 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1792 link. Closes: #346405
1793 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1795 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1796 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1797 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1798 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1799 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1800 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1801 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1805 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1812 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1818 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1821 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1825 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1828 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1833 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1837 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1838 installed. Closes: #342033
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1842 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1845 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1846 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1847 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1852 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1858 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1864 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1868 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1869 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1870 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1874 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1877 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1882 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1889 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1895 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1898 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1899 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1900 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1901 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1902 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1903 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1904 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1906 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1913 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1914 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1921 in standard man dirs.
1922 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1935 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1954 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1957 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1958 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1965 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1966 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1967 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1969 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1971 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1986 mode. Closes: #324161
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1993 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1994 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1995 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1996 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2004 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2005 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2006 is necesary for sanity.
2007 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2008 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2015 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2016 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2023 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2036 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2037 released, so use at your own risk.
2038 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2039 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2041 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2042 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2043 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2044 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2045 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2046 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2047 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2048 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2049 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2050 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2051 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2052 including twice per config file line now..
2053 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2054 and simplfy the rules file.
2055 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2056 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2057 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2059 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2060 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2067 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2074 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2081 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2088 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2089 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2090 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2091 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2092 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2093 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2100 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2101 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2102 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2107 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2110 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2111 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2119 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2120 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2121 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2129 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2130 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2131 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2141 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2148 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2151 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2152 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2153 unknown. Closes: #282924
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Spanish man page updates.
2167 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2181 * dh_desktop: reindent
2182 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2183 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2195 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2201 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2205 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2208 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2209 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2213 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2235 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2242 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2243 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2244 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2245 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2246 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2247 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2249 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2250 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2251 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2252 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2253 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2254 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2255 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2256 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2257 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2258 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2259 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2260 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2261 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2262 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2263 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2264 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2278 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2282 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2285 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2292 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2299 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2315 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2324 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2325 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2326 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2330 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2333 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2337 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2340 but occasionally right and necessary.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2347 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2348 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2349 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2350 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2351 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2355 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2358 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2360 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2361 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2362 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2363 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2364 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2365 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2366 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2367 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2368 postinst scripts for udebs.
2369 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2376 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2378 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2379 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2396 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2406 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2410 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2413 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2417 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2420 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2423 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2424 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2428 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2434 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2437 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2441 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2444 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2445 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2446 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2448 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2450 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2451 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2452 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2456 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2459 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2467 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2468 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2469 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2474 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2480 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2489 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2490 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2491 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2492 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2493 associated -dbg packages.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2500 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2507 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2514 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2521 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2529 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2536 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2541 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2544 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2548 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2552 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2553 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2554 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2555 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2556 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2557 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2558 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2559 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2560 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2561 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2568 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2576 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2577 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2584 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2585 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2593 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2597 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2600 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2607 out section number. Closes: #204731
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2633 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2634 removal. Closes: #204286
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2641 renaming. Closes: #203548
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2648 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2649 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2665 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2671 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2674 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2675 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2676 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2683 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2684 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2704 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2709 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2712 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2719 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2721 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2722 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2729 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2734 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2737 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2741 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2749 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2756 it break hard links (see #188663).
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2763 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2773 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2777 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2778 debconf-mergetemplates
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2782 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2785 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2792 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2799 * Update debhelper(1).
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2806 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2807 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2808 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2809 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2810 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2814 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2817 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2818 the shell. Closes: #178524
2819 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2823 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2826 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2830 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2833 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2837 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2840 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2841 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2842 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2843 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2848 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2851 files from installation.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2855 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2858 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2859 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2863 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2866 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2870 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2873 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2877 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2883 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2889 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2893 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2894 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2896 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2900 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2903 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2904 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2905 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2906 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2910 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2913 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2917 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2920 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2921 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2925 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2929 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2940 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2944 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2945 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2946 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2951 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2954 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2955 practice. Closes: #163303
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2975 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2977 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2978 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2979 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2980 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2981 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2988 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3009 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3026 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3042 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3043 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3044 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3045 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3056 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3066 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3067 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3071 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3074 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3075 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3076 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3077 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3078 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3082 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3085 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3087 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3095 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3099 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3102 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3103 right thing. Closes: #150644
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Stupid, evil typo.
3110 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3114 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3124 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3125 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3130 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3136 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3139 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3146 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3147 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3152 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3155 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3159 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3165 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3168 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3169 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3173 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3179 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Removing perl warning message.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3185 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3188 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3189 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3190 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3191 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3192 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3193 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3194 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3195 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3199 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3205 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3212 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3215 debconf-mergetemplate.
3216 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3217 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3221 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3224 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3225 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3226 dh_install, which ...
3227 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3228 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3229 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3230 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3231 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3232 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3233 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3234 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3235 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3236 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3237 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3238 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3239 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3240 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3241 other minor changes.
3242 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3243 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3244 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3245 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3246 course there's -X ..)
3247 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3248 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3249 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3251 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3252 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3253 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3254 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3255 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3260 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3266 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3269 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3273 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3279 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3285 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3291 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3297 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3300 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3301 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3302 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3303 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3305 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3306 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3310 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3316 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3319 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3323 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3326 upset. Closes: #131322
3328 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3330 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3333 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3334 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3335 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3336 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3337 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3338 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3339 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3340 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3341 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3342 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3343 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3344 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3345 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3346 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3347 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3349 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3353 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3356 - Better indenting of generated code.
3357 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3361 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3365 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3366 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3367 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3368 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3369 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3370 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3371 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3375 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3378 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3382 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3385 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3386 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3387 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3388 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3389 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3390 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3391 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3392 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3393 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3394 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3395 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3396 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3397 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3398 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3399 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3404 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3410 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3413 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3414 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3418 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3421 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3422 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3426 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3432 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3435 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3436 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3437 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3438 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3439 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3444 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3450 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3453 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3460 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3471 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3474 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3484 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3488 Also some indentation fixes.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3492 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3495 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3496 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3497 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3498 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3499 Closes: #106514, #85520
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3503 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3515 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3521 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3527 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3533 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3536 change it in debhelper v4..
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3540 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3546 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3549 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3553 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3556 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3569 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3570 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3571 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3572 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3573 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3574 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3575 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3576 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3577 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3578 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3579 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3580 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3584 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3587 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3591 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3601 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3602 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3603 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3604 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3605 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3606 program those options go to. So, for example,
3607 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3608 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3609 something complex. Closes: #89311
3610 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3614 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3617 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3618 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3619 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3623 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3626 through loop. Closes: #98598
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3630 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Missing semi-colon.
3633 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3634 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3638 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3641 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3642 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3643 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3647 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3650 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3651 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3655 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3658 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3662 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3665 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3666 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3670 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3673 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3674 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3675 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3679 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3682 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3683 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3684 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3688 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3691 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3695 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3701 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3707 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3713 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3719 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3722 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3726 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3729 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3730 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3731 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3732 followed. Closes: #85483
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3736 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3738 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3739 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3740 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3744 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3747 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3748 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3749 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3750 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3751 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3752 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3753 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3754 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3755 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3756 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3757 Closes: #88464, #77743
3758 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3759 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3760 us to deal with that gracefully.
3761 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3763 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3764 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3765 a while, Closes: #51225
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3769 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3775 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3778 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3782 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3786 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3791 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3794 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3795 don't make packlist files.
3796 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3797 debhelper coding standards.
3798 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3799 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3803 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3806 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3810 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3813 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3814 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3815 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3816 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3817 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3818 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3819 but is mildly deprecated.
3820 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3821 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3822 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3823 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3824 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3825 switching to statoverrides..
3826 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3827 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3828 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3829 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3830 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3831 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3833 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3834 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3835 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3836 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3837 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3838 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3839 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3840 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3841 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3843 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3844 variable names, pod man pages).
3845 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3846 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3847 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3848 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3849 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3850 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3851 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3871 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3877 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3878 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3879 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3885 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3886 they were previously ignored.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3890 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3892 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3893 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3899 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3900 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3901 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3907 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3913 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3914 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3918 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3920 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3921 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3922 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3923 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3924 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3925 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3926 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3927 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3928 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3929 it is an obsolete program.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3935 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3943 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3949 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3953 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3955 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3959 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * typo: Closes, #78567
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3983 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3986 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3987 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3988 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3989 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3990 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3997 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4005 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4006 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4007 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4008 backwards-compatibility.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4015 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4016 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4017 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4018 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4019 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4020 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4022 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4023 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4024 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4026 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4028 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4029 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4030 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4031 should now be raised to severity important..
4032 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4033 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4040 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4070 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4073 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4074 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4075 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4076 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4080 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4086 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4089 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4090 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4091 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4092 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4093 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4094 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4102 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4112 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4115 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4123 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4124 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4125 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4126 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4134 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4137 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4140 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4141 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4144 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4146 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4147 the TODO entry about it.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4161 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4162 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4169 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4170 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4171 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4172 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4192 (this appears to be logal).
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4199 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4200 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4201 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4202 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4215 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4216 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4217 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4218 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4231 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4245 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4246 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4247 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4268 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4269 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4270 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4271 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4272 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4273 notice until v2 is complete.
4274 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4275 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4276 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4277 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4278 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4279 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4281 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4282 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4283 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4284 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4304 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4318 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4319 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4320 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4321 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4329 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4330 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4331 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4336 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4339 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4340 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4347 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4354 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4368 depend on the build and install targets.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4375 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4401 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4402 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4403 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4404 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4405 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4406 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4408 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4409 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4410 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4411 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4412 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4413 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4414 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4433 right place. Closes: #55065
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4437 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4444 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4447 * Copyright date updates.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4454 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4472 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4478 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4484 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4490 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4493 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4494 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4495 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4496 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4497 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4498 bits until all files have been registered.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4502 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installmanpages:
4505 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4506 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4507 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4508 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4509 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4510 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4511 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4512 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4513 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4514 otherwise change the result at all.
4516 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4517 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4518 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4519 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4520 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4525 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4531 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4534 act on files that don't exist.
4535 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4536 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4537 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4539 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4540 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4541 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4542 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4546 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4552 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4558 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4561 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4565 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4568 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4570 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4571 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4572 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4576 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4579 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4580 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4581 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4582 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4583 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4584 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4585 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4587 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4589 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4593 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4600 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4615 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4634 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4635 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4636 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4637 I made some changes, though:
4638 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4639 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4640 that is a clear violation of policy.
4641 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4642 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4643 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4644 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4645 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4646 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4647 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4648 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4649 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4651 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4664 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4671 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4672 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4693 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4694 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4695 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4696 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4697 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4698 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4699 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4713 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4714 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4718 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4727 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4734 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4735 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4741 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4750 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4757 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4758 for the dependancies to be generated.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4765 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4772 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4773 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4774 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4779 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4782 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4783 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4787 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4793 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4802 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4812 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4815 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4816 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4817 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4818 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4819 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4820 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4821 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4822 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4823 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4824 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4825 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4826 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4833 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4834 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4836 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4837 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4838 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4839 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4840 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4841 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4843 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4844 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4851 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4865 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4873 for building debhelper.
4874 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4888 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4895 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4896 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4897 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4898 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4899 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4900 it's always available.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4907 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4908 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4909 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4916 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4917 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4930 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4940 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4943 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4944 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4945 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4949 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4952 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4957 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4960 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4961 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4963 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4964 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4968 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4974 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4980 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4983 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4990 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4991 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4993 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4997 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5000 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5001 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5002 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5006 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5009 things if CDPATH is set.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5013 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5019 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5022 seems to make sense for the transition.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5026 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5029 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5034 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5037 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5038 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5042 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5045 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5049 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5052 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5053 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5054 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5055 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5059 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5068 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5069 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5070 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5071 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5072 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5073 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5074 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5075 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5076 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5077 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5085 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5086 * README: mention doc/v2
5087 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5088 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5094 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5095 be using this script RSN.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5102 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5103 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5104 more than 1 init script.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5111 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Changed perl version detection.
5118 * Changed call to find.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5125 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5127 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Really include dh_installpam.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5141 * Wrote man page for same.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5148 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5149 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5164 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5165 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5166 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5167 x bit was being set!
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5174 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5175 well. (Closes: 38900)
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5182 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5183 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5200 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5209 help from Julian Gilbey.
5210 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5211 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5212 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5213 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5214 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5215 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5216 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5249 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5253 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5256 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5260 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5263 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5267 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5276 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5280 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5295 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5296 may be deleted. (#35845)
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5300 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Various man page enhancements.
5303 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5311 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5312 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5319 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5320 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5321 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5323 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5324 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5329 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * Another very minor typo fix.
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5341 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Very minor typo fix.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5350 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5351 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5355 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5361 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5364 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5365 variables properly (#34850).
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5369 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5378 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5379 (automatically generated by build process).
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5383 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5385 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5392 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5393 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5395 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5399 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5402 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * README: minor typo fix.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5415 leave it at that. :-)
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5434 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5435 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5436 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5440 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5443 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5450 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5454 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5457 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5458 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5459 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5460 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5464 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5467 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5468 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5469 Craig Small for spotting this.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5476 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5477 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5490 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5494 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5496 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5497 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5498 working on the last version of debhelper.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5502 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5505 being made. (#23255)
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5515 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5517 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5518 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5525 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5526 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5527 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5528 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5532 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5535 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5536 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5537 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5538 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5540 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5541 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5543 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5548 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5560 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5563 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5564 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5565 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5566 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5567 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5568 suidregister actually supports it.
5569 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5570 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5574 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5581 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5584 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5585 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5586 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5587 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5588 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5589 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5590 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5594 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5596 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5597 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5604 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5605 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5606 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5607 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5611 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5614 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5616 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5617 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5618 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5619 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5620 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5621 effect, either. (#30118)
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5631 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5634 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5635 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5639 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5645 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5648 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5649 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5650 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5651 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5655 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5658 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5659 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5663 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5672 packages, painlessly.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5676 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5682 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5688 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5690 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5694 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * The perl conversion is complete.
5698 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5700 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5701 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5702 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5707 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5710 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5711 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5712 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5716 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5719 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5721 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5723 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5724 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5728 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5731 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5732 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5736 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5742 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5745 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5746 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5747 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5748 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5749 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5753 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5756 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5757 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5758 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5759 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5763 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5766 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5773 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5774 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5775 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5776 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5777 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5778 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5779 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5780 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5790 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5793 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5794 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5795 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5800 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5803 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5807 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5810 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5814 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5817 sections of shared libraries.
5818 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5819 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5820 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5821 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5822 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5823 things you don't want them to.
5824 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5825 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5829 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5832 shared libraries. (#26414)
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5838 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5839 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5840 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5841 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5845 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5849 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5851 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5852 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5853 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5854 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5855 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5859 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5862 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5866 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5869 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5870 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5875 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5878 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5882 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5885 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5886 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5887 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5888 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5889 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5891 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5892 remove debian/files properly.
5893 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5894 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5895 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5896 * Removed bogus menu file.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5900 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5903 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5907 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5910 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5911 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5912 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5913 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5914 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5915 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5919 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5922 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5923 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5924 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5925 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5929 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5936 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5939 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5940 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5942 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5943 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5944 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5945 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5946 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5947 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5951 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5953 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5954 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5955 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5956 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5957 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5958 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5959 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5960 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5961 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5962 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5963 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5964 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5965 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5966 passed any switches.
5967 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5971 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5974 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5975 at all for a long while.
5976 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5977 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5978 large chunks in the process.
5979 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5980 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5981 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5986 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5989 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5991 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5996 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5999 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6000 that don't always have the same files in them.
6001 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6002 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6003 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6007 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6011 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6012 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6013 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6014 updating 27 man pages.
6015 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6016 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6017 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6018 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6019 programs act on. (#25247)
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6023 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6027 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6028 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6029 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6030 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6031 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6032 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6037 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6044 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6051 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6054 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6064 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6067 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6068 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6069 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6070 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6071 package by accident.
6072 * Is version 1.0 next?
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6076 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6079 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6080 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6084 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6087 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6088 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6089 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6090 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6091 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6093 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6098 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6101 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6102 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6106 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6108 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6109 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6113 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6116 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6117 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6122 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6128 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6131 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6132 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6137 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6143 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6146 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6147 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6148 past week. Thanks, guys!
6150 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6151 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6152 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6153 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6154 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6155 would do in the same situation.
6156 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6157 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6159 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6161 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6162 permissions changed.
6163 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6164 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6165 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6166 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6167 files are treated identically.
6168 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6169 * Minor man page fixes.
6170 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6171 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6172 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6176 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6179 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6180 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6181 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6182 use -X multiple times, too.
6183 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6184 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6188 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6191 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6192 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6196 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6199 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6203 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6206 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6207 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6208 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6209 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6210 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6211 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6212 shape if you're starting a new package.
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6216 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6219 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6223 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6226 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6227 because of missing symlinks.
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6231 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6237 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6240 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6241 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6242 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6243 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6244 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6246 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6247 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6253 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6254 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6255 to be changed after the fact :-)
6256 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6260 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6262 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6263 no version string after the -V.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6269 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6270 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6275 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6278 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6282 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6285 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6286 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6287 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6288 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6289 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6290 I always welcome corrections!
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6294 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6300 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6303 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6304 * Documented this new switch.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6308 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6311 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6312 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6313 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6314 no packages use the old behavior.
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6318 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6320 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6321 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6322 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6326 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6329 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6333 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6335 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6339 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6342 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6346 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6349 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6350 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6351 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6355 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6361 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6364 into the source package by accident.
6366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6368 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6370 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6371 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6372 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6373 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6374 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6375 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6376 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6381 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6385 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6386 inspired to implement some of it.
6387 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6391 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6394 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6398 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6401 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6402 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6406 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6409 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6410 have done.) (#17598)
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6414 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6426 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6429 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6433 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6436 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6437 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6441 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6444 argument processor in perl.
6445 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6446 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6447 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6448 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6452 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6455 type directories. (#16933)
6456 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6457 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6458 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6459 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6460 are supported. (#16935)
6461 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6469 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6477 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6478 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6479 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6480 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6481 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6482 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6486 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6488 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6489 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6490 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6492 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6493 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6494 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6495 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6496 a given package, or -i or -a.
6497 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6498 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6499 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6500 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6501 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6502 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6503 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6504 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6505 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6507 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6508 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6509 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6513 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6516 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6517 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6525 does not have a section.
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6532 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6533 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6534 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6538 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * Fixed typo #16215.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6547 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6548 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6549 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6550 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6551 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6556 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6558 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6559 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6560 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6561 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6566 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6572 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6581 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6582 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6583 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6584 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6585 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6586 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6590 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6592 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6596 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6598 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6599 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6603 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6605 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6606 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6607 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6608 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6612 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6615 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6619 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6625 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6627 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6628 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6632 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6635 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6639 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6641 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6645 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6647 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6648 postinst, postrm, etc.
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6652 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6654 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6658 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6661 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6662 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6663 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6664 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6665 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6669 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6672 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6673 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6677 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6680 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6684 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6687 installing package files into.
6688 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6693 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6697 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6701 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6707 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6710 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6714 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6717 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6718 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6719 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6720 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6724 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6726 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6727 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6728 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6729 multiple binary packages.
6730 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6731 should rebuild them with this version.
6732 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6736 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6738 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6739 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6743 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6745 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6746 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6750 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6752 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6753 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6754 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6755 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6756 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6757 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6758 debian/README.debian.
6759 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6760 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6761 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6762 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6763 in a few situations.)
6765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6767 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6769 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6773 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6775 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6779 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6781 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6782 * Fixed several man pages.
6784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6786 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6788 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6789 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6790 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6794 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6796 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6797 is ready for general use.
6798 * Added man pages for all commands.
6799 * Multiple binary package support.
6800 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6801 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6802 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6804 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6805 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6806 auto-installed as parameters.
6807 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6809 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6812 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6813 the package build directory it is to act on.
6814 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6815 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6816 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6820 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6822 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6823 ready to replace debstd.
6825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400